Arendtian Constitutionalism: Law, Politics and the Order of Freedom
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1509917713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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the book is a great success. -- Rodrigo Chacon The English Historical Review Overall, this is an excellent, thoughtful and detailed engagement with Arendt's work that will become a clear point of reference for those who wish to understand her work on the state and legality and who then wish to deploy it to analyse contemporary global politics. Through an incredibly rich and knowledgeable interpretation of Arendt's work, Volk offers new perspectives on her concepts of law and politics, and develops a distinctive approach for thinking about legitimacy and democracy today. -- Christopher May, Lancaster University Political Studies Review . -- Dana Schmalz Internati
Christian Volk is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the University of Trier.
Subject: Legal Philosophy, Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Political Theory. This book examines Arendt's work and reconstructs her ideas through political, legal and constitutional theory, and shows that her engagement with law is continuous as well as crucial to an adequate understanding of her political thought. This book addresses some of the most misunderstood aspects of Arendtian thought-namely, her views of law and constitutionalism. Volk does away with a lot of misconceptions and guides us to a novel view of Arendt on these questions and beyond."--Seyla Benhabib, Yale U. By adopting this approach, the author suggests an alternative interpretation of Arendt's thought, which sees her as thinker of political order who considers as crucial a stable and free political order in which political struggle and dissent can occur. "Christian Volk is one of the most original and penetrating Arendt i