The Wrong of Law

Metaphysics, Logics and Law's Claim of Right

Valerie Kerruish, Uwe Petersen

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English

Routledge
19 February 2025

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: logic; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Systems of law

This book combines metaphysics, aspects of modern logic, and legal theory in order to conceptualise a wrong in law’s claim of right.

The book takes as its starting point a restriction on the freedom of concept formation that is dictated by classical logic’s inability to handle antinomies in reason’s attempts to constitute its own foundations. Relating this to law’s claim of right, the notion of ‘wrong’ does not fasten on law’s violence or injustice, and neither does it seek to elaborate a moral or ethical critique of law. On the contrary: it is sceptical of, and seeks an alternative to, the various ethical turns of recent legal and political theory. The ‘wrong’ of the wrong of law is logical and epistemic in character. It is a failure or refusal to recognise the cognitive relevance of contradictions of self-reference. In this respect, The Wrong of Law draws on a metaphysical-logical development from Kant via Hegel and Marx to the foundations of modern logic, in order to establish the sense in which a restriction on self-reference amounts to a limitation on truth-seeking or comprehension. This limitation is then demonstrated through analysis of the reasoning in a series of legal cases in Australia, concerning Indigenous peoples.

This book will be of significant interest to scholars in critical legal theory, the philosophy of law and jurisprudence; as well as others with an interest in foundational studies across the disciplinary borders of metaphysics, mathematical logic, sociology and legal theory.

By: Valerie Kerruish
Edited by: Uwe Petersen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 739g
ISBN: 9781032859286
ISBN 10: 1032859288
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 19 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part A. Metaphysical Studies: The Objectivity of Illusion Preface 1. Hegel's Idea of Thought's Logical Foundation 2. Commodity Fetishism: Marx's Dialectic of Content and Form Part B. Logical Impressions Preface: That Other Paradise 3. Foundational Matters 4. Theory, Technique, Practice Part C. The Wrong of Law Entr'acte: Prefatory Supplements 5. At the Court of the Strange God: Case Study with a Fancy 6. The Form of Law and the Force of Form 7. The Genius of Form

Valerie Kerruish (1943–2022) was a Tutor, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia from 1965–1992, and an Associate Professor at Macquarie University from 1993–1999. She then convened the Centre for Legal Theory at the Altonaer Stiftung fr philosophische Grundlagenforschung, in Hamburg. Uwe Petersen is an independent scholar in metaphysics and logic, who has been working with Valerie Kerruish for more than twenty five years.