Table of Contents

Introduction: The Laws of Nature and the Nature of Law
1. Science and Law
2. From Kósmos to Machine: The
Evolution of Early Western Scientific Thought
3. From Commons to Capital: The Evolution of Western Legal Thought
4. The Great Transformation and the Legacy of Modernity
5. From the Machine to the Network: Scientific Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
6. Mechanical Jurisprudence
7. The Mechanistic Trap
8. From Capital to Commons: The Ecological Transformation in Law
9. The Commons as a Legal Institution
10. The Ecolegal Revolution

About the Author

Fritjof Capra, PhD, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is a fellow of Schumacher College in England and serves on the council of Earth Charter International. He frequently gives management seminars for top executives. Capra is the author or coauthor of over ten books, including The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life.

Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and a professor of civil law at the University of Turin, Italy. He is active in the European Commons movement and has written academic articles and media commentary translated into many languages.

Reviews

"The authors propose a philosophy and jurisprudence that is deeply radical—upending centuries of Western tradition and culture—but possibly crucial to solving looming environmental problems.... Simply reading about Capra and Mattei's vision is a paradigm-changing experience. Realizing it would require a seemingly impossible, but perhaps crucial, global transformation.” -- Publishers Weekly