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Critique of rightsPolity. 2020.The declaration of equal rights arguably created the modern political community. But this act of empowering individuals caused the disempowering of the political community. Exposing this, Menke opens up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering of the political community.
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Subjective Rights. The Paradox of FormZeitschrift Für Rechtssoziologie 29 (1). 2008.Systems theory and deconstruction alike conceive of modern law as self-reflective: Modern law entails in itself its own other; from this follows its paradoxical structure which is exemplified by the concept of legal person as a “two-sides-form” (Zwei-Seiten-Form: Luhmann) of “social person” and “concrete individuality”. Systems theory and deconstruction differ, however, in how they conceive of modern law’s paradoxical self-reflection: Systems theory grants it the power of form-constitution. This…Read more
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Gleichheit, Reflexion, GemeinsinnIn Harald Bluhm & Herfried Münkler (eds.), Gemeinwohl Und Gemeinsinn: Zwischen Normativität Und Faktizität, De Gruyter. pp. 71-84. 2001.
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Law and violenceIn Law and Violence: Chirstoph Menke in dialogue, Manchester University Press. 2018.
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Relativismus und Partikularisierung. Zu einigen Uberlegungen bei R. RortyPhilosophische Rundschau 36 (1-2): 25-40. 1989.
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