Political Justice: Foundations for a Critical Philosophy of Law and the State

by Otfried Höffe

Otfried H ffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today. In this major work, already a classic in continental Europe, he re-examines philosophical discourse on justice - from Classical Greece to the present day. H ffe confronts what he sees as the two major challenges to any theory of justice: the legal, positivist claim that there are no standards of justice external to legal systems; and the anarchist claim that justice demands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YWA3GI
• ISBN13: 9780745634821
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"