Abstract:This article offers a combined reading of Karl Löwith’s and Leo Strauss’s critique of social theory from the point of view of the natural law tradition broadly understood. Within the context of a growing interest in revisiting social theory’s debt to natural law, the piece seeks to unfold the connections between the two traditions without searching to restore any kind of natural law. Rather, it looks at their relationships as one of Aufhebung — the suspension and carrying forward — of natural law premises with… Show more
Découvrir la revueCiter cet article Marcucci, N. (2012). La guerre des universaux. La place de Simmel dans la réflexion sociologique sur l'obligation1. Sociologie et sociétés, 44(2), 95-117.
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