This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike.
Austin, John.- Beccaria, Cesare.- Bentham, Jeremy.- Blackstone,
William.- Bonald, Luis de.- Burke, Edmund.- Comte, Auguste.- Condorcet,
Nicolas de.- Constant, Benjamin.- De Maistre, Joseph.- Dicey, Alfred
Venn.- Diderot, Denis.- Donoso-Cortés, Juan Francisco Manuel Marķa de la
Salud.- Engels, Friedrich.- Ferguson, Adam.- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb.- Green,
Thomas Hill (18361882).- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.- Helvétius,
Claude-Adrien.- Holmes, Oliver Wendell jr..- Hugo, Gustav.- Humboldt, Wilhelm
von.- Jefferson, Thomas.- Jhering, Rudolf von.- Kant, Immanuel.- Maine, Henry
Sumner.- Marx, Karl.- Mazzini, Giuseppe.- Mill, John Stuart.- Mohl, Robert
von (17991875).- Nietzsche, Friedrich.- Olympe de Gouges.- Proudhon,
Pierre-Joseph.- Puchta, Georg Friedrich.- Savigny, Friedrich Carl von
(1779-1861).- Sieyčs, Emmanuel-Joseph.- Smith, Adam.- Spencer,
Herbert.- Stahl, Friedrich Julius.- Thibaut, Anton Friedrich
Justus.- Tocqueville, Alexis de.- Wollstonecraft, Mary.
Gianfrancesco Zanetti taught Jurisprudence and Political Theory in the University of Bologna, University of Modena, Military Academy of Modena (course for the Carabinieri Cadets), Hunter College CUNY (New York), UC Berkeley. Mortimer Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland. He is past President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR).
Stephan Kirste holds the Chair for the Philosophy of Law and Head of the Department for Legal Theory, International and European Law at the University of Salzburg, Professor Colaborador at Pontifķcia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and member of the Council of the German Speaking International Andrįssy University, Budapest.