Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments and Preface vii
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One Cohen’s “Methodistic” Founding of Ethics in Legal Science: Generation of the Legal Person 26
7. Chapter Two “For the Idea of Law [Gesetz] He Substitutes Morality”: Understanding Law in Cohen’s Ethik, with Help from the Early Strauss 55
8. Chapter Three Philosophico-Political Theology as Method: From Strauss’s Philosophy and Law to Cohen’s “Philosophy of Jewish Religion” 86
9. Chapter Four Isolation and Universalism: Cohen’s New Messianic Politics of Jewish Law 120
10. Chapter Five Against “Affective Expansiveness”: Cohen’s Critique of Stammler’s Theory of “Right Law” 157
11. Chapter Six The “Neighbor” as an Institution of Law (Recht), from the Ethik to the Jewish Writings 189
12. Conclusion 255
13. Bibliography 263
14. Index 293