Why Religion? Towards a Critical Philosophy of Law, Peace and God

Dawid Bunikowski, born in northern Poland, residing in Finnish North Karelia, has a Doctor of Law (from Nicolaus Copernicus University). He is a philosopher of law and pursues cross-disciplinary research. He cooperates with the University of the Arctic (as Leader of the Sub-group of Philosophy of Law), Cardiff Centre for Law and Religion and the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include legal theory, law and morality, law and religion. Alberto Puppo is Professor of Legal Theory at the ITAM Law School (México). He holds a doctorate in Analytical Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the University of Milan. He is the author of Acceptation et normativité: la force du devoir dans le discours juridique and the co-author, with Sévane Garibian, of Normas, valores, poderes. Ensayos sobre positivismo y derecho internacional. His main field of interest is international legal theory, especially Kelsen’s theory.

• Part I: Peace Through Religion in Moral Philosophy and Natural Law.- Chapter 1 Jurisprudence is About Both Divine and Human Things.- Chapter 2 Domestic Peace as Social Justice.- Chapter 3 Philosophical and Theological Aspects in the Thought of Johannes Althusius.- Chapter 4 Living Well Together: Insights from a Philosopher, a Theologian and a Legal Scholar.- Part II: Secular Peace Through Universal Religions.-Chapter 5 A Theological Justification for Freedom of Religion and Belief as a Universal Right.- Chapter 6 Islam, Europe, and the Problem of Peace.- Chapter 7 Humanity as the Ground for Universal Human Rights in Islamic Law.- Part III: Peace and Religious Beliefs in International Jurisprudence.- Chapter 8 The Sollen as Otherwise than Being: Notes on Hermann Cohen, Hans Kelsen and Emmanuel Lévinas.- Chapter 9 From Rosa Luxemburg to Hersch Lauterpacht: An Ostjüdische Heritage in International Law?.- Chapter 10 Law, Secularism, and the Evolution of the ‘Human’ in International Legal Discourse and Global Governance.- Part IV: The Political/Religious Dimension of Dramatic Social Events.-    Chapter 11 Blake’s Dialectical Theism.- Chapter 12 Some Remarks on “Adulthood” in Walter Benjamin’s Experience and Poverty.- Chapter 13 The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of Political Religion in France.