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Law and Reflexive Politics

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  • © 1998

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  1. Emilios A. Christodoulidis

    1. The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 35)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Republican Constitutionalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Citizenship, Passive and Active

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 3-9

    3. Republicanism and its Legacy

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 10-18

    4. Habermas on the ‘Interpenetration’ of Law and Politics

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 19-30

    5. American Civic Republicanism

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 31-51

    6. Dworkin and the Law as Forum of Principle

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 52-60

    7. The Containment Thesis

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 61-69

  3. Political Conflict Under Legal Categories: A systems-theoretical critique of Republican Constitutionalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-95
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    2. Law, Society and Conflict

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 96-101

    3. Law and the Double Contingency of Conflict

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      Pages 102-115

    4. Legal Expectations

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      Pages 116-128

    5. The Relationship of Conflict and Law

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      Pages 129-135

    6. Conflicts Conflated

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      Pages 136-148

    7. Conflict Re-enacted

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      Pages 149-186

    8. Conflict Severed

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      Pages 187-210

    9. Conflict Normalised

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      Pages 211-224

  4. Reflexive Politics

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      Pages 225-225
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    2. The Exclusionary and the Reflexive

      • Emilios A. Christodoulidis
      Pages 227-233

    3. Theories of Political Reflexivity

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      Pages 234-247
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Law is the great concealer; and law is everywhere. Or so claimed Marxists once upon a time. [Law] was imbricated within the mode of production and productive relations themselves . . . it intruded brusquely within alien categories, re-appearing bewigged and gowned in the form of ideology; . . . it was an arm of politics and politics was one of its arms; it was an academic discipline, subjected to the rigour of its own autonomous logic, it contributed to the definition of the self-identity of both the rulers 1 and the ruled. Does the old critique of domination still hold any sway? Apparently not. Or so even scholars of the far Left keep reminding us in their eagerness to embrace law and proclaim their allegiance to the new constitutional politics of civil society. Old Marxists now describe popular sovereignty as 'co-original' with, and democracy 'internally linked' to 2 constitutional rights and find it hard to remember what it was they once disagreed with liberals about. No tension left between emancipatory politics and oppressive law; instead we have reciprocal constitution, simultaneous realisation. In the Left's embracing of the new constitutionalisms its old critique of law - the critique of the law's concealment of class inequality, class conflict and class action - is left behind.

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  • The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Emilios A. Christodoulidis

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