The hidden (r)evolution: Commentary on Hauke Brunkhorst’s book CriticalTheory of Legal Revolutions

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