The hidden (r)evolution: Commentary on Hauke Brunkhorst's book Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions. (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kreide, Regina
• Is Part Of: Philosophy & social criticism. Volume 41:Number 10(2015)
• Page Start: 1021
• Page End: 1028
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: Critique -- dialectics -- normative standards -- revolution -- social evolution; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 300.1
• DOI: 10.1177/0191453715585034
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-4537

Abstract

The article is a review of Hauke Brunkhorst's book on a Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions . The author addresses three points: (1) Hauke Brunkhorst's notion of history, and of what remains unseen; (2) the dialectics of evolution and revolution, and whether the approach is sufficiently dialectic, according to its own promise; and (3) the (too) implicit notion of critique.