Critical theory and legal autopoiesis The case for societal constitutionalism

Introduction: Gunther Teubner's foundational paradox - Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Part I: Law, literature and deconstruction 1 Self-subversive justice: contingency or transcendence formula of law? 2 The economics of the gift - the positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann 3 Dealing with paradoxes of law: Derrida, Luhmann, Wiethölter 4 The Law before its law: Franz Kafka on the (im)possibility of Law's self-reflection Part II: Juridical epistemology: reconstructing the horizontal effects of human rights, the private-public dichotomy, and contracting 5 The anonymous matrix: human rights violations by 'private' transnational actors 6 After privatisation? The many autonomies of private law 7 In the blind spot: the hybridisation of contracting Part III: The dark side of functional differentiation: the normative response of societal constitutionalism 8 A constitutional moment? The logics of 'hitting the bottom' 9 Global Bukovina: legal pluralism in the world society 10 Regime-collisions: the vain search for legal unity in the fragmentation of global law 11 Horizontal constitutional rights as conflict-of-laws rules: how transnational pharmaceutical groups manipulate scientific publications 12 The project of constitutional sociology: irritating nation state constitutionalism 13 Exogenous self-binding: how social subsystems externalise their foundational paradoxes in the process of constitutionalisation Afterword: the milestones of Teubner's neo-pluralism - Alberto Febbrajo Index