The End of Law: Political Theology and the Crisis of Sovereignty [Hardcover]

Preface, Introduction, Chapter One:?Beyond Judgement: Gustav Radbruch and the Relativization of Law, Chapter Two: Beyond Survival: H.L.A Hart and the Minimum Content of Natural Law, Chapter Three: Beyond the Polis, Ernst-Wolfgang?B?ckenf?rde and the Crisis of Sovereignty, Chapter Four; Conclusion, Biobliography.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.L.A. Hart, and Ernst-Wolfgang B?ckenf?rde each addressed the question of the end of law, its function, and its normative foundation within the context of the modern legal and political order.

A brilliant plea for why positive law needs to be taken to its end in order to reach justice. This book sets the stage for fruitful conversations between theologians and legal scholars. A crucial contribution to the discussion of political theology and philosophical anarchism.
Miguel Vatter, Professor in Political Philosophy, Deakin University
https://experts.deakin.edu.au/56123-miguel-vatter

Providing a controversial response to the contentious relationship between law and human flourishing, this book will stimulate discussion among scholars of legal theory, the philosophy of law, political theology, ethics, religious studies, and religious law.
Judith Hahn, Professor of Canon Law, University of Bonn
https://www.ktf.uni-bonn.de/faecher/kirchenrecht

This is an inspiring and timely book that arrives at a moment when hope and utopian thinking are urgently needed. Drawing on a compelling inl##