Paul A. Brienza ; With a Foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta
v, 365 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index
Paradox and origin : on the structure of legal communication -- History, law and hermeneutic self-reference -- Self-mastery and the conversion of force : an ethics of freedom -- The social metaphysics of law : Vico's communicative body and the paradoxical grounding of freedom and authority -- The creative formation and foundation of society's law : on the nature of poetic wisdom -- Between freedom and authority : Vico's history of Roman law -- The technique of command : on the problem of freedom in Weber's sociology of law