Theoria

A student writes in a short commentary/reading journal assignment on H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept of Law: Hart’s article is clearly interested in attacking Austin’s view of the law is [sic] the command of the soveriegn [sic] backed up by coercive farce [sic!!!] and where the soverigns [sic] powers are not limited by law. Great stuff. [...]

I am, by no means, a specialist – or even vaguely acquainted – with most positivist philosophy. Recently I read H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept of Law in order to teach it to my legal studies students. Among other things, Hart is interested in destroying Austen’s definition of law as the command of the sovereign backed [...]

The current issue of Telos (Summer 2007) has published a fourth transcript of Schmitt’s Nuremberg interrogations. Joseph Bendersky – translator and editor of the newly found transcript and the original ones as well – discusses it on the Telos website. I’ll comment on the transcripts (and update the bibliography) once I actually get a chance [...]

Given what will no doubt lead to an explosion of interest in “police” and “security” in social and political theory circles with the publication of Foucault’s lectures, Security, Territory, Population, (add to that the recently published volume edited by Markus Dubber and Mariana Valverde, The New Police Science), it is interesting to see “the Hobbes [...]