Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-543) and index.

Table of contents

1.The Problem of Jurisprudence, or Telling the Truth of Law;
2.Origins;
3.The Laws of Nature, Man's Power and God;
4.Thomas Hobbes and the Origins of the Imperative Theory of Law;
5.David Hume - Defender of Experience and Tradition against the Claims of Reason to Guide Modernity;
6.Immanuel Kant and the Promotion of a Critical Rational Modernity;
7.From Rousseau to Hegel; Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill;
8.John Austin and the Misunderstood Birth of Legal Positivism;
9. Karl Marx and the Marxist Heritage for Understanding Law and Society;
10. Weber, Nietzsche and the Holocaust; The Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen; The High Point of Legal Positivism; Liberalism and the Idea of the Just Society in Late Modernity;
11. Ronald Dworkin and the Struggle against Disenchantment;
12. Scepticism, Suspicion and the Critical Legal Studies Movement;
13. Understanding Feminist Jurisprudence;
14. Concluding