法律理论和法律的媒体

Elgar Studies in Legal Theory

Thomas Vesting, Professor for Public Law, Legal Theory and Media Theory, Faculty of Law, Goethe University, Germany

As many disciplines in the humanities have experienced a focus on culture’s impact in recent decades, questions surrounding the significance of media such as writing, print and computer networks have become increasingly relevant. This book seeks to demonstrate that a media and cultural theory perspective can also be highly productive for legal theory.

‘ This book of remarkable erudition was originally written in German as a series of four volumes. Bringing together law, communication and media studies, philosophy of language, anthropology and theory of culture, the author shines a new light on liberal law, its various forms and its evolution.’
– Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

‘What significance does media (e.g. the form and materiality of expression) have for law and legal thought? Covering a hugely impressive historical range – from oral traditions, through the invention of writing and print, to today's computer networks – this new book from Thomas Vesting offers the best guide currently available to that question. Putting in dialogue media theory and legal theory, Vesting does not shy away from the most difficult issues at the intersection of these two fields. The book will be of interest to everyone from book historians to theorists of contemporary mass media. An impressive achievement.’
– Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, UK