‘Gunther Teubner is one of the most important and visible figures in the sociology of law. His concept of "societal constitutionalism" has largely shaped the perspective of constitutional sociology. This collection represents a highly significant contribution to one of the key theoretical debates of our time.’
Emilios Christodoulidis, Chair of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Glasgow
This volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner, in which he works to reformulate critical accounts of law and society in the light of the diagnoses of late modernity provided by Niklas Luhmann, Jacques Derrida and others. Arguing that fundamental democratic concepts can no longer be based simply on theories of logical consistency and rational coherence, Teubner approaches law in terms of contingency and self-subversion, developing the concept of societal constitutionalism as a response to the paradoxes of modern s
