Introduction

1-11

The positive law

natural law dichotomy, Aristotle and the Greek totemic legal culture

13-35

Invisibility in modern legal thought

37-55

The tradition of legal positivism in modern legal thought

57-71

An invisible nature

the origin of Thomas Hobbes's civil laws

73-121

Naming the unnamable

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's general will

123-136

The habits of the people

the origin of John Austin's laws properly so called

137-170

The invisible origin of legal language

thegrundnorm

171-200

The forgotten origin

H.L.A. hart's sense of the pre-legal

201-246

Forgetting the act of forgetting

Raz's inaccessible origin of legal reasoning

247-293

Conclusion

the end of legal positivism

Amy E. Varela

295-316