Deconstructive constitutionalism: Derrida reading Kant

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kant and Modern Constitutionalism -- Context, Challenges, and Alliances -- "Method" and Limitations -- From Kant's Moral Law to Perpetual Peace -- Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1 The Moral Law -- The (Non-)Relation of Respect fo...

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Main Author: De Ville, Jacques (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Albany, NY State University of New York Press [2023]
In:Year: 2023
Series/Journal:SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy series
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004 / Constitutionalism / Kantianism / Constitutional law
Further subjects:B Deconstruction
B Constitution (Philosophy)
B Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Influence
B Constitutional Law Philosophy
B Derrida, Jacques Influence
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kant and Modern Constitutionalism -- Context, Challenges, and Alliances -- "Method" and Limitations -- From Kant's Moral Law to Perpetual Peace -- Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1 The Moral Law -- The (Non-)Relation of Respect for the Law -- The Law of Law -- An Interrupted Relation -- A Law of Tact -- Feeling as Driving Force -- Duty -- The "As If " -- A Law of Welcome -- Chapter 2 The Principle of Reason -- Heidegger on the Principle of Reason -- Modern Thinking and the Principle of Reason
The Principle of Reason as a Saying of Being -- The Withdrawal of Being in its Sending -- Kant and the Principle of Reason -- The Sending of Being and the Human Being -- Derrida -- The University and the Principle of Reason -- The Gift and the Principle of Reason -- The Death Penalty and the Principle of Reason -- Reason to Come -- Legal Reasoning and the Welcome to the Other -- Chapter 3 Freedom and Democracy -- Heidegger -- Transcendental Freedom -- Practical Freedom -- Freedom, Causality, and Being -- Derrida -- Freedom as Exposure beyond Mastery -- Freedom and Democracy
Kant, Freedom, and Democracy -- Chapter 4 Animal, Subject, Constitution -- Kant, the Animal, and the Human -- Derrida Reading Kant -- Subjectivity -- The Civil Condition -- The Moral Law -- Living Together -- Chapter 5 Crime, Punishment, and Forgiveness -- Legal Responsibility and Punishment -- The Sovereign's Right to Punish and to Grant Clemency -- Punishment -- Clemency -- The Purpose of Punishment -- The Measure of Punishment -- Progress -- Calculating with the Incalculable -- Chapter 6 Perpetual Peace -- Preface -- Defining Peace -- Public Law -- International Law -- Cosmopolitan Law
Peace as Absolute Hospitality -- Kant after Derrida -- Abyssal Foundations -- Toward the Democracy to Come -- Reading Kant to Meet the Challenges of Today -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Case Law -- Index
Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century
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ISBN:1438491735