Michel Rosenfeld

The Identity of the Constitutional Subject

Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community

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Produktbeschreibung

The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But Identity of the Constitutional Subject asks, can constitutionalism become truly global? Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitution regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively recent one in Germany and Spain, Rosenfeld sheds light on the range of conditions necessary for the emergence, continuity and adaptability of viable constitutional identity-citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, and human rights are important examples--Identity of the Constitutional Subject will be the first systematic analysis of the concept.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415949743
• ISBN-10: 0415949742
• Artikelnr.: 21834159

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