Vico and the social theory of law : the structure of legal communication / Paul A. Brienza ; with a Foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta.
2014
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Title
Vico and the social theory of law : the structure of legal communication / Paul A. Brienza ; with a Foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta.
Published
Lewiston, New York : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
K457.V5 B75 2014
ISBN
9780773400504 hardcover
0773400508 hardcover
0773400508 hardcover
Description
v, 365 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)865494037
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Giuseppe Mazzotta
i
Introduction
1
1.
Paradox and Origin: On the Structure of Legal Communication
5
Paradox and Legal Theory
5
Nature/Culture and Legal Communication
11
The Mysterious Origins of Legal Authority
21
The Autonomy of Law and the Emergence of Legal Conceptuality
31
2.
History, Law and Hermeneutic Self-Reference
45
Introduction
45
The Framing of Vico's Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century
46
Benedetto Croce and Vico
49
Gadamer, Vico, and the Decline of the Humanist Tradition
60
Historically Effected Consciousness and the Hermeneutic Re-collection of Sensus Communis
64
Humanism and the Interpretive Vehicle of Vico's Conatus
73
Conclusion: Hermeneutics and Vico's Texts
83
3.
Self-Mastery and the Conversion of Force: An Ethics of Freedom
87
Introduction
87
Words and Things: Philology Defined
89
Etymologies of Conatus
92
The Context of Conatus
93
Baroque En-foldings: Leibniz and Conatus
98
Accounting for Freedom: Spinoza's Notion of Conatus
105
4.
The Social Metaphysics of Law: Vico's Communicative Body and the Paradoxical Grounding of Freedom and Authority
141
On the Concept of the Baroque
141
Leibniz and Monadology
144
Motion and the Monad
154
The Vichian Concept of Conatus
158
The Engendering Power of Ingenium
183
5.
The Creative Formation and Foundation of Society's Law: On the Nature of Poetic Wisdom
187
The Transition to Poetry as Source and Method
187
The Significance of Homer
191
Poetry in the New Science
193
Idea of the Locus, Wisdom, and Poetic Theology
208
The Cyclopean Age
215
Poetry, Knowledge, and the Myth of Jove
216
6.
Between Freedom and Authority: Vico's History of Roman Law
229
Introduction
229
The Significance of Roman Constitutional History
231
The Gaze of the God: The Coming of Shame
236
Conatus and Authority: A General Structure
237
The Phenomenology of Force
244
Authority and the Family
253
Class Struggle and the Origins of Law
260
The Emergence of Codified Law: The Twelve Tables
266
Certum et Verum: The Emergence and Elaboration of Legal Reason
271
Legal Individualism and the Culture of Solitude
278
The Circle of Authority
281
Law and the Social Practice of Justice
285
Conclusion: The Tripartite Division of Authority and the Harmonization of the Three Bodies of Law
291
7.
The Technique of Command: On the Problem of Freedom in Weber's Sociology of Law
297
General Introduction
297
Vico and Weber: Contrasting Views on Power and Authority
305
Differing Methodologies and the Sociology of Law
316
Basic Differences in the Social Concept of Law
323
Bibliography
327
Index
347