Michel Rosenfeld

The Identity of the Constitutional Subject

Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global? Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively recent ones in Germany, Spain and South Africa, Michel Rosenfeld sheds light on the range of conditions necessary for the emergence, continuity and adaptability of a viable constitutional identity - citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, and human rights being important elements. The Identity of the Constitutional Subject is the first systematic analysis of the concept, drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory and law from a comparative perspective to explore the relationship between the ideal of constitutionalism and the need to construct a common constitutional identity that is distinct from national, cultural, ethnic or religious identity. The Identity of the Constitutional Subject will be of interest to students and scholars in law, legal and political philosophy, political science, multicultural studies, international relations and US politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780415949736
• ISBN-10: 0415949734
• Artikelnr.: 21881452

Autorenporträt

Michel Rosenfeld is Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Rosenfeld teaches and is widely published in the fields of American and comparative constitutional law and legal philosophy. His books include Affirmative Action and Justice: A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry (1991); Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (1998); and Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Why Constitutional Identity and for Whom? 1. The
Constitutional Subject: Singular, Plural or Universal? 2. The
Constitutional Subject and the Clash of Self and Other: On the Uses of
Negation, Metaphor and Metonymy Part 2: Producing Constitutional Identity
3. Reinventing Tradition through Constitutional Interpretation: The Case of
Unremunerated Rights in the United States 4. Recasting and Reorienting
Identity through Constitution-Making: The Pivotal Case of Spain's 1978
Constitution Part 3: Constitutional Identity as Bridge Between Self and
Other: Binding Together Citizenship, History and Society 5. Constitutional
Models: Shaping, Nurturing and Guiding the Constitutional Subject 6. Models
of Constitution Making 7. The Constitutional Subject and Clashing Visions
of Citizenship: Can We be Beyond what We are Not? 8. Can the Constitutional
Subject go Global? Imagining a Convergence of the Universal, the Particular
and the Singular