Ernst-Wolfgang B ckenf rde (b. 1930) is one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (December 1983 - May 1996), B ckenf rde has been a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal
and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested political and ethical problems. Thus, his...