《Law and reflexive politics》

PART ⅠRepublican Constitutionalism3

Chapter 1.Citizenship,Passive and Active3

Chapter 2.Republicanism and its Legacy10

Chapter 3.Habermas on the 'Interpenetration' of Law and Politics19

Chapter 4.American Civic Republicanism31

Ackerman and the 'Discovery' of Constitutional Politics31

Sunstein and Michelman:'Empathy' in 'Law's Republic'36

Deliberation,Distance and Empathy37

Institutional Deliberative Politics42

Sunstein's Institutional suggestion43

Michelman's Institutional suggestion45

The Critique of Elitism and the Retreat from the Institutional Dialogue48

Chapter 5.Dworkin and the Law as Forum of Principle52

The Interpretive Thesis53

Integrity:The Right Answer55

Integrity,Coherence,Narrative57

Dworkin Republican59

Chapter 6.The Containment Thesis61

PART ⅡPolitical Conflict Under Legal Categories:A systems-theoretical critique of Republican Constitutionalism73

EXCURSUS:Luhmann's Systems Theory:An Introduction73

Operations74

System and Meaning78

Observation81

Observation:system-centric and system-specific81

The Reduction of Complexity83

Society and Sub-systems84

Guiding Distinctions88

Chapter 7.Law,Society and Conflict96

The Juridification of Conflict97

Chapter 8.Law and the Double Contingency of Conflict102

Thesis [1] against Republicanism112

Chapter 9.Legal Expectations116

The Function of Law117

The Generalisation of Expectations as Legal120

The Temporal dimension121

The Social Dimension122

The Material Dimension124

Chapter 10.The Relationship of Conflict and Law129

Chapter 11.Conflicts Conflated136

Thesis [2] against Republicanism137

Thesis [3] against Republicanism141

Thesis [4] against Republicanism145

Chapter 12.Conflict Re-enacted149

Thesis [5] against Republicanism157

Thesis [6] against Republicanism163

Incitement to subvert168

Contempt of Court173

Chapter 13.Conflict Severed187

The Material Dimension187

Thesis [7] against Republicanism188

The Social Dimension192

Touraine and Melucci:Identity and Constitutive Conflict193

Simmel and Coser:Identity and 'Phenomenal 'Conflict197

Thesis [8] against Republicanism200

Thesis [9] against Republicanism206

Thesis [10] against Republicanism209

Chapter 14.Conflict Normalised211

Thesis [11] against Republicanism220

PART ⅢReflexive Politics227

Chapter 15.The Exclusionary and the Reflexive227

Chapter 16.Theories of Political Reflexivity234

Cover:Reflexivity and Anarchy235

Lyotard:Reflexivity as the threat of the Differend237

Unger:Reflexivity as Negative Capability242

Chapter 17.Luhmann on Political Reflexivity248

Chapter 18.On Love,Marriage,Law and Politics256

The Facilitative Side of Marriage257

The Incompatibilities of Love and Marriage259

Exclusionary Reasons and the Community of Marriage265

Back to Politics269

Chapter 19.Contingency as Eigen-value of Politics273

Chapter 20.Politics 'As Passion'283

Conclusion287

Bibliography289

Index305