The health of nations : society and law beyond the state / Philip Allott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allott, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence.

Civil society.

International law.

Idealism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 436 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The human world is changing. Old social structures are being overwhelmed by forces of social transformation which are sweeping across political and cultural frontiers. A social animal is becoming the social species. The animal that lives in packs and herds (family, corporation, nation, state) is becoming a member of a human society which is the society of all human beings, the society of all societies. The age-old problems of social life - religious, philosophical, moral, political, legal, economic - must now be addressed at the level of the whole species, and the level where all cultures and traditions meet and will contribute to an exhilarating and hazardous new form of human self-evolving. In this book Philip Allott explores the social and legal implications and potentialities of these developments in the light of the general theory of society and law which is proposed in his groundbreaking Eunomia: New Order for a New World.

Contents:

1. Society and law : The will to know and the will to power. Theory and moral responsibility

The phenomenon of law

Globalisation from above. Actualising the ideal through law

The nation as mind politic. The making of the public mind

New Enlightenment. The public mind of all-humanity

2. European society and its law : European governance and the re-branding of democracy

The crisis of European constitutionalism. Reflections on a half-revolution

The concept of European Union. Imagining

The conversation that we are. The seven lamps of European unity

3. International society and its law : The concept of international law

International law and the idea of history

Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism

International law and the international Hofmafia. Towards a sociology of diplomacy

International law and international revolution. Reconceiving the world.

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ISBN:

9780511493676

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