Law and Reflexive Politics by E.A. Christodoulidis.

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 w...

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Main Author: Christodoulidis, E.A (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 35
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Table of Contents:
  • I Republican Constitutionalism
  • 1. 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.