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Looking specifically at the Nazi, fascist, and Stalinist regimes, H rcher (aesthetics and philosophy of law, P zm ny P ter Catholic U., Budapest) asks how law became the dumb servant to totalitarian power, and more precisely the degree to which law is responsible for making the birth of totalitarian regimes possible. How far, he ponders, did the moral neutrality of law assist human brutality. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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• Acknowledgements(p. 8)
• 1. Introduction(p. 9)
• 1.1. The Hart-Fuller debate(p. 10)
• 1.1.1. The legal-technical perspective(p. 11)
• 1.1.2. The theoretical perspective(p. 12)
• 1.2. The action-theoretic escape-route(p. 13)
• 2. A pragmatic theory(p. 17)
• 2.1. Pragmatism as a theory of action(p. 17)
• 2.2. The contingent "realm of human affairs"(p. 19)
• 2.3. Intersubjectivity(p. 23)
• 2.3.1. The Hegelian context(p. 23)
• 2.3.2. Mead and intersubjectivity(p. 25)
• 2.4. Philosophical anthropology and aesthetics serving pragmatism(p. 29)
• 2.4.1. Towards a tragic version of pragmatic philosophical anthropology(p. 29)
• 2.4.2. Judgement and sensus communis: two elements of Hannah Arendt's reinterpretation of Kant's political philosophy(p. 35)
• Interlude 1(p. 38)
• 3. Of natural law(p. 41)
• 3.1. Virtues(p. 41)
• 3.2. Gadamer on the sensus communis and on judgment(p. 42)
• 3.2.1. Sensus communis(p. 42)
• 3.2.2. Judgement(p. 44)
• 3.3. MacIntyre on virtues(p. 46)
• 3.3.1. The narrative unity of life(p. 47)
• 3.4. Two interrelated concepts: experience and practice(p. 49)
• 3.4.1. Experience (Erfahrung) in Gadamer's theory(p. 49)
• 3.4.2. Practice in Macintyre's theory(p. 53)
• 3.5. Two related views on Aristotle(p. 56)
• 3.5.1. Gadamer on Aristotle(p. 56)
• 3.5.2. MacIntyre on Aristotle(p. 60)
• Interlude 2(p. 64)
• 4. Phronesis and prudence(p. 67)
• 4.1. Aristotle and Aquinas on phronesis and prudence(p. 67)
• 4.1.1. Aristotle on phronesis(p. 67)
• 4.1.2. Aquinas on prudence(p. 73)
• Interlude 3(p. 85)
• 5. Prudentia iuris: towards a pragmatic theory of natural law(p. 87)
• 5.1. Is there a justice higher than positive law?(p. 87)
• 5.2. The fallible man: A concept of human personality(p. 89)
• 5.3. The tragic choice(p. 91)
• 5.4. Experience, practice, intuition and moral sense: the workings of prudence(p. 93)
• 5.5. Decision-making and action(p. 98)
• 5.5.1. Martha Nussbaum's situational ethics(p. 98)
• 5.5.2. Peter Winch on moral particularism(p. 100)
• 5.6. The moral psychology of prudence(p. 102)
• 5.7. The jurisprudential consequence of a pragmatic theory of natural law(p. 105)
• 5.7.1. Perelman's circles of the public surveillance of lawyers(p. 107)
• 5.7.2. The situation of the legislator and the judge(p. 108)
• Conclusion(p. 110)
• Appendix I and II Two case studies in the history of ideas(p. 111)
• Appendix I The anatomist and the painter. The debate on the role of moral philosophy in the Scottish enlightenment(p. 113)
• Appendix II Sensus communis in Gellert, Garve and Feder. An Anglo-Scottish element in German popular philosophy?(p. 137)
• Bibliography(p. 159)
• Subject index(p. 167)
• Index of names(p. 175)