Law and reflexive politics

Law and Reflexive Politics argues against the dominant recent ̀republican' trend in legal and democratic theory that sees law as the prime vessel of political action, means of empowerment of civil society and guarantor of democratic politics. Against theorists as diverse as Dworkin, Habermas, U...

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Other Authors: Christodoulidis, Emilios, autor (autor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht [etc.] : Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001
Series:Law and Philosophy Library ; 35
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Table of Contents:
  • I Republican Constitutionalism1. Citizenship, Passive and Active
  • 2. Republicanism and its Legacy
  • 3. Habermas on the ‘Interpenetration’ of Law and Politics
  • 4. American Civic Republicanism
  • 5. Dworkin and the Law as Forum of Principle
  • 6. The Containment Thesis
  • II Political Conflict Under Legal Categories: A systems-theoretical critique of Republican Constitutionalism
  • 7. Law, Society and Conflict
  • 8. Law and the Double Contingency of Conflict
  • 9. Legal Expectations
  • 10. The Relationship of Conflict and Law
  • 11. Conflicts Conflated
  • 12. Conflict Re-enacted
  • 13. Conflict Severed
  • 14. Conflict Normalised
  • III Reflexive Politics
  • 15. The Exclusionary and the Reflexive
  • 16. Theories of Political Reflexivity
  • 17. Luhmann on Political Reflexivity
  • 18. On Love, Marriage, Law and Politics
  • 19. Contingency as Eigen-value of Politics [Reflexivity as second-order observation]
  • 20. Politics ‘As Passion’ [Reflexivity as Self-Reference]
  • Conclusion.