Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition

556 Pages·2019·4.227 MB·English

by  Peter Langford (editor), Ian Bryan (editor), John McGarry (editor)

Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition
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Studies in Moral Philosophy
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Thom Brooks (Durham University)
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Hans Kelsen and the
Natural Law Tradition
Edited by
Peter Langford
Ian Bryan
John McGarry
leiden | boston
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition (Conference) (2013 : Edge
Hill University). | Langford, Peter, editor. | Bryan, Ian. editor. |
McGarry, John (Law teacher), editor. | Edge Hill University, host
institution. | Austrian Cultural Forum (London, England), sponsoring body.
Title: Hans Kelsen and the natural law tradition / edited by Peter Langford,
Ian Bryan, John McGarry.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. | Series: Studies in moral
philosophy, issn 2211-2014 ; volume 14 | Includes papers presented at
“Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition : An International,
Interdisciplinary Conference” hosted at Edge Hill University, UK in
September 2013.--ecip Acknowledgements. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2018059320 (print) | lccn 2019005885 (ebook) | isbn
9789004390393 (ebook) | isbn 9789004390386 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Kelsen, Hans, 1881-1973--Congresses. | Natural
law--Congresses. | Legal positivism--Congresses.
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340/.112--dc23
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In Memoriam
Michael Langford
(1937–2018)
Over my head in leaves grown deep,
sings the young nightingale.
It only sings of love there,
I hear it in my sleep.
(Heinrich Heine ‘Death’, ‘Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht’ 1823/24)
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Contents
Acknowledgements  xi
Notes on Contributors  xii
Introduction: The Kelsenian Critique of Natural Law  1
Peter Langford and Ian Bryan
Part 1
Aristotle, Dante and Kelsen
1 Kelsen’s Blind Spot for the Pluralism of Antiquity  59
Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer
2 To the Roots of the Universal Juridical Order: Hans Kelsen
and the Staatslehre of Dante Alighieri  94
Maurizio Cau
Part 2
Kelsen and Early Modern and Enlightenment Theories
of Natural Law  
3 Comments on the Kelsenian Idea of Natural Law in the Light
of Althusius’ Theory of Law  121
Gaëlle Demelemestre
4 From Wolff to Kelsen: The Transformation of the Notion of Civitas
Maxima  161
Peter Langford and Ian Bryan
5 Hans Kelsen and the Requirement of Self-determination: How
the Austrian Jurist Takes Inspiration from Rousseau and How
He Emancipates Himself from the Swiss Philosopher  188
Sandrine Baume
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6 Kelsen versus Kant on the Nature of Law  215
Joachim Renzikowski
7 Grounding the Normativity of Law: The Role of Transcendental
Argumentation in Kelsen’s Critique of Natural Law Theory  253
Ana Dimiškovska
Part 3
Kelsen, Neo-Kantianism and Schmitt  
8 Hans Kelsen and SouthWest German Neo-Kantianism on Natural
Law: Transcendental Philosophy beyond Metaphysics and
Positivism  289
Christian Krijnen
9 Hans Kelsen’s and Ernst Cassirer’s Conception of Natural
Law  327
Pellegrino Favuzzi
10 Nomos or Law? Hans Kelsen’s Criticism of Carl Schmitt’s Metaphysics of
Law and Politics  372
Gerhard Donhauser
11 The Trouble with Nature  399
Mariano Croce
Part 4
Kelsen’s Natural Law  
12 Natural Law and the Vienna School: Hans Kelsen, Alfred Verdross, and
Eric Voegelin  425
Franz Leander Fillafer and Johannes Feichtinger
13 Against Natural Law: The Political Implications of Kelsen’s Legal
Positivism  462
Sara Lagi
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Contents ix
14 Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss on Naturrecht and the Post-theological
Wager  478
Peter Gostmann
Conclusion: Beyond Legal Positivism and Natural Law?  500
Peter Langford and Ian Bryan
Index  533
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