Max Weber's Comparative Cultural Sociology of Law
Chapter VII: The power of ""inner-legal conditions""Chapter VIII: Carriers of legal rationalization; Chapter IX: Religious powers, their orders and references to the analysis of religious communities; Chapter X: Political forces and the rationalization of law; Chapter XI: The substantive qualities of formal law and the endangerment of modern legal culture; Chapter XII: Bibliographical epilogue; References
The book offers an original interpretation of Emile Durkheim's theory and demonstrates its potential for the analysis of various lifeworld phenomena. In the first part, Durkheim's role in the context of an original unity of sociology of law, sociology of religion and social theory is illuminated and his original approach to the analysis of elementary forms of social life is reconstructed. The second part traces these elementary forms through examples such as commemorative rituals, the social construction of icons of beauty and the sacralisation of nature, among others. It thereby shows how stimulating reading this author can be for grasping social realities – and for understanding how his works have changed the cultural sociology of social life.
This book assembles the vision of placing the visual, textual and theoretical into a productive relation. The volume is, in the first part, a documentation of an exhibition at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London containing images and commentaries by the artist. The second part is devoted to reflections on some specific images, installations and the project itself. These challenging interpretations by renowned scholars interpretations transcend the scope of the particular artworks by engaging in far-reaching theoretical considerations of the represented issues and thinkers as well as by illuminating the manifold relations of art and law. How to paint the law and the related traditions of social thought remains a fundamental question of this undertaking. Theoretical impulses, for example de-centralizing European social thought, join non-Occidental aesthetic traditions and lead to communication problems in a global world that reach far beyond spoken language and text. If it is true that innovation sometimes happens at the cross-cutting lines between different spheres and disciplines, this book may serve as an inspiration of further “Fröhliche Wissenschaft“ without betraying the eternal normative questions of law and justice.
Über die als „Rechtssoziologie“ bekannten Teile von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft wurde bereits viel diskutiert. Die neue Edition im Rahmen der historisch-kritischen Gesamtausgabe und die gewonnenen Einsichten in den Entstehungsprozess und die innere Logik dieser Texte bieten Anlass, etablierte Deutungen zu hinterfragen und neue Interpretationen zur Debatte zu stellen. In diesen Texten finden sich Ansätze eines Pluralismus normativer Ordnungen, und Weber hebt die kulturelle Dimension der Rechtsordnungen hervor, was für die Analyse zeitgenössischer Gesellschaften und ihrer Identitätsbilder nach wie vor bedeutend ist. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge, die im Kontext dieser Überlegungen und einer erneuten Auseinandersetzung mit Webers Schriften zum Recht entstanden sind.
This volume documents the outcome of a working group regarding „Law and the Arts“, which was organized by the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities „Law as Culture“. The collected contributions discuss the structural relationships and contradictions of law and the arts with the aim of bringing the spheres closer to each other again. The plea is therefore that the reciprocal potential for insight be better utilized not only through conceptualization, aesthetic reflection, and sensory appraisals, but also through aesthetic practice. Thus, this volume takes a look beyond the classical subject matter of law and literature and incorporates the increasing interest for visual cultures, yet also encourages new fields of research that relate to the hidden relationship between law and music as well as the colorfulness of law and law as sculpture.
Emile Durkheim’s work significantly influences the social sciences, particularly regarding normativity, which continues to inspire theoretical reflection and empirical analysis. His main concerns have fundamentally shaped social thought, addressing changing social bonds, integration, belief and unbelief in societal values, and the acceptance or rejection of law, obligation, and rights. Durkheim explored the inner tensions of normative orders and the challenge of aligning diverse normativities with the complex structures of society, promoting the idea of normative and social pluralism. The concept of the Sacred plays a crucial dual role: it represents an autonomous sphere of the Holy, threatened by modernization, while also being a fundamental aspect of sociality, culture, and normativity, underpinning modern, secularized collective beliefs. This volume features contributions from various disciplines, examining a wide array of topics related to normativity. It aims to revisit these critical issues and highlight the enduring influence of Durkheim’s ideas on the Sacred and the law, showcasing their relevance in contemporary discussions.
John Searle´s social ontology seeks for nothing less than the fundamental „structure of human civilization“. By trying to reconcile the description of the world by the natural sciences with our self-understanding as free, rational and conscious beings, he points to the core of meaningful social life with its institutions, rules and normative expectations. Searle´s often provocative project of explaining „the exact role of language in the creation, constitution, and maintenance of social reality“ manifested in his book „Making the Social World“ (2010) and outlined in this volume, is taken on by philosophers and social scientists in a critical encounter. Among the large range of topics discussed in these articles are Searle´s concept of collective intentionality, the status of social facts, the social acceptance of institutions, the magic of speech acts as well as Searle´s excursion into the world of power and human rights. Not least, these reflections help to clarify the sometimes conflict-laden relation of philosophy and social theory.
Literarische Darstellung und juridische Aufarbeitung von Kriegsverbrechen im globalen Kontext
Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge unterschiedlicher disziplinärer Ausrichtung, die sich mit Formen und Verfahrensweisen des Tribunals auseinandersetzen. Der Name des Tribunals steht aufgrund seiner ambivalenten Geschichte einerseits grundsätzlich im Verdacht der Willkürjustiz, andererseits jedoch in jüngerer Zeit auch für internationale und hybride Institutionen, deren Aufgabe die Be- und Verurteilung fundamentalen Unrechts ist: die strafrechtliche Verfolgung von Kriegsverbrechen und „Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“. Die hier veröffentlichtenTexte fragen nach der Rechtskultur des Tribunals, aber auch nach literarischen und anderen ästhetischen, bisweilen selbst tribunalartige Züge aufweisenden Formen der Darstellung von Kriegsverbrechen.
An dem in diesem Band vorgestellten Forschungsprojekt zur Frage der Bedeutung der Religionen für die Identitätsbildung haben sich Vertreter verschiedener Fachrichtungen beteiligt: Religionswissenschaftler, Theologen und Philosophen, Gesellschaftswissenschaftler und Mediziner. Alle ihre Beiträge zeichnen sich dadurch aus, daß sie von vornherein über die Identität versichernden Grenzen der jeweiligen Wissenschaftskulturen hinausgreifen. Die hier vorgelegten Studien betreffen einmal grundlegende Reflexionen zur Identitätsbestimmung, zum anderen beispielhaft bestimmte Religionen in ihren konkreten historischen Erscheinungsformen - insbesondere werden Probleme jüdisch-christlicher Identitätsbildung und Fragen religiöser Identitätsbildung in Asien untersucht.
Das Buch zeigt, wie scheinbar disparate Gegenwartsdiskurse über die Erinnerung an den Holocaust in der Bundesrepublik und in Israel, das Ende der Apartheid in Südafrika sowie über den „Kampf der Kulturen“ und die Frage nach einer europäischen Einheit zusammenhängen und das Problem der Kollektiven Identitätsbildung in den Vordergrund rücken.