Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry by Hans Kelsen ISBN 13: 9781584779865

2009. ISBN-13: 9781584779865; ISBN-10: 1584779861. Kelsen, Hans. Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry. London: K. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., [1946]. viii, 391 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779865; ISBN-10: 1584779861. Paperback. New. $44.95 * This interesting work offers a sociological and ethnographic perspective on Kelsen's juristic thinking. His central thesis, which ranges over the history of humanity, argues that the idea of causality developed from primitive ideas of retribution. He shows how early man developed his interpretation of nature through the laws of retribution and causality, then developed our current concept of nature and society over time. He holds that the gradual emancipation of the law of causality from the principle of retribution is "the emancipation from a social interpretation of nature," a process "very important from the point of view of intellectual history." (Introduction viii). Society and Nature was originally… Read More

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2009. ISBN-13: 9781584779865; ISBN-10: 1584779861. Kelsen, Hans. Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry. London: K. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., [1946]. viii, 391 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779865; ISBN-10: 1584779861. Paperback. Cover and page edges lightly bumped and soiled. Good. $50. * This interesting work offers a sociological and ethnographic perspective on Kelsen's juristic thinking. His central thesis, which ranges over the history of humanity, argues that the idea of causality developed from primitive ideas of retribution. He shows how early man developed his interpretation of nature through the laws of retribution and causality, then developed our current concept of nature and society over time. He holds that the gradual emancipation of the law of causality from the principle of retribution is "the emancipation from a social interpretation of nature," a process "very important from the point of view of intellectual history."… Read More

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