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Jonas Heller: Deforming Rights: Arendt’s Theory of a Claim to Law
Deforming Rights: Arendt’s Theory of a Claim to Law
(S. 263 – 292)

Jonas Heller

Deforming Rights: Arendt’s Theory of a Claim to Law

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Jonas Heller

is “wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter” at the Philo­sophy Department of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Within the research association The Formation of ­Normative Orders he is co-leader of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) research project “The Political Difference of Life: For a Reconceptualization of the Crisis of State and Society.” His main research interests are in political, legal and social philosophy and in the theory of history. He received his PhD in 2017 with a thesis about the relation between state of exception and human rights. In 2018 his first book, Mensch und Maßnahme. Zur Dialektik von Ausnahmezustand und Menschenrechten was published with Velbrük.
Liza Mattutat (Hg.), Roberto Nigro (Hg.), ...: What’s Legit?

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has received a great deal of attention in recent years, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the other, it is criticised for being an instrument of state oppression. Legal criticism’s strategies to deal with this ambivalence differ greatly: while some theoreticians seek to transcend the institution of law altogether, others advocate a transformation of the form of law or try to employ counter-hegemonic strategies to change the content of law, deconstruct its basis or invent rights. By presenting a variety of heterogeneous approaches to legal criticism, this volume points out transitions and exhibits irreconcilable differences of these approaches. Without denying the diversity of different forms of critique, they are related to one another with the aim of broadening the debates which all too often are conducted only within the boundaries of the separate theoretical currents.