Political Justice: Foundations for a Critical Philosophy of Law and the State

Translator's Preface.

Author's Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: A Re-Assessment of the Discussion of Justice.

Part I: The Standpoint of Political Justice. .

2. The Idea of Political Justice.

3. The Perspective of Justice.

4. Political Justice or Natural Law?.

5. The Myth of Legal Positivism?.

6. Critique of Positivist Concepts of Law.

Part II: Freedom From Herrschaft or Just Herrschaft? .

7. The Utopia of Freedom from Herrschaft.

8. Greed and the Birth of Herrschaft (Plato).

9. The Political Nature of Mankind (Aristotle).

10. Elementary Conflicts: A Thought Experiment.

11. Freedom in Social Institutions.

Part III: Political Justice as the Principle of a Free Society.

12. Natural Justice.

13. Practical Deficiences of Natural Justice.

14. The Just State.

15. Strategies of Political Justice.

Bibliography.

Index.