Challenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in command and in the law’s orientation to the common good.

When and why do we have an obligation to obey the law? Prevailing theories in the philosophy of law, starting with the work of H. L. A. Hart and Joseph Raz, fail to...

Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis’ General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category of Pashukanian legacy, the concept of legal form.

This book offers new, deeper and more general, ways in which the concept of legal form can be used to push forward Marxist – post-Marxist or hauntingly Marxist...

In the philosophy of law there has been a proliferation of advanced work in the last thirty years on the normativity of law. Recent theories explore law's character as a special kind of convention, shared cooperative activity, and social artifact, among other perspectives, to explain the precise way in which law provides subjects with reasons for action. Yet, for all...

Aaron Alexander Zubia argues that the Epicurean roots of David Hume’s philosophy gave rise to liberalism’s unrelenting grip on the modern political imagination.

Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume has had an outsized impact on the political thinkers who came after him, from the nineteenth-century British Utilitarians to modern American social...

Parmi les géants de son temps, Guillaume Budé tient une place à part. Il est assurément le plus singulier des lettrés français de la première Renaissance. Contemporain d’Érasme et de Thomas More, il posa comme nul autre avant lui – mais aussi après lui, peut-être – la question des humanités en France, ainsi que les bases d’une réflexion nationale...

Devenues « outre-mer » dans les années Trente, les colonies françaises laissaient deviner des fins pressenties que la Seconde Guerre mondiale allait définitivement imposer. Dès 1945, commence un long processus de décolonisation qui culminera avec les dernières indépendances dans les années 1970. Ces événements historiques majeurs, s'ils marquent la naissance...