PART Ⅰ Republican Constitutionalism 3
Chapter 1.Citizenship,Passive and Active 3
Chapter 2.Republicanism and its Legacy 10
Chapter 3.Habermas on the 'Interpenetration' of Law and Politics 19
Chapter 4.American Civic Republicanism 31
Ackerman and the 'Discovery' of Constitutional Politics 31
Sunstein and Michelman:'Empathy' in 'Law's Republic' 36
Deliberation,Distance and Empathy 37
Institutional Deliberative Politics 42
Sunstein's Institutional suggestion 43
Michelman's Institutional suggestion 45
The Critique of Elitism and the Retreat from the Institutional Dialogue 48
Chapter 5.Dworkin and the Law as Forum of Principle 52
The Interpretive Thesis 53
Integrity:The Right Answer 55
Integrity,Coherence,Narrative 57
Dworkin Republican 59
Chapter 6.The Containment Thesis 61
PART Ⅱ Political Conflict Under Legal Categories:A systems-theoretical critique of Republican Constitutionalism 73
EXCURSUS:Luhmann's Systems Theory:An Introduction 73
Operations 74
System and Meaning 78
Observation 81
Observation:system-centric and system-specific 81
The Reduction of Complexity 83
Society and Sub-systems 84
Guiding Distinctions 88
Chapter 7.Law,Society and Conflict 96
The Juridification of Conflict 97
Chapter 8.Law and the Double Contingency of Conflict 102
Thesis [1] against Republicanism 112
Chapter 9.Legal Expectations 116
The Function of Law 117
The Generalisation of Expectations as Legal 120
The Temporal dimension 121
The Social Dimension 122
The Material Dimension 124
Chapter 10.The Relationship of Conflict and Law 129
Chapter 11.Conflicts Conflated 136
Thesis [2] against Republicanism 137
Thesis [3] against Republicanism 141
Thesis [4] against Republicanism 145
Chapter 12.Conflict Re-enacted 149
Thesis [5] against Republicanism 157
Thesis [6] against Republicanism 163
Incitement to subvert 168
Contempt of Court 173
Chapter 13.Conflict Severed 187
The Material Dimension 187
Thesis [7] against Republicanism 188
The Social Dimension 192
Touraine and Melucci:Identity and Constitutive Conflict 193
Simmel and Coser:Identity and 'Phenomenal 'Conflict 197
Thesis [8] against Republicanism 200
Thesis [9] against Republicanism 206
Thesis [10] against Republicanism 209
Chapter 14.Conflict Normalised 211
Thesis [11] against Republicanism 220
PART Ⅲ Reflexive Politics 227
Chapter 15.The Exclusionary and the Reflexive 227
Chapter 16.Theories of Political Reflexivity 234
Cover:Reflexivity and Anarchy 235
Lyotard:Reflexivity as the threat of the Differend 237
Unger:Reflexivity as Negative Capability 242
Chapter 17.Luhmann on Political Reflexivity 248
Chapter 18.On Love,Marriage,Law and Politics 256
The Facilitative Side of Marriage 257
The Incompatibilities of Love and Marriage 259
Exclusionary Reasons and the Community of Marriage 265
Back to Politics 269
Chapter 19.Contingency as Eigen-value of Politics 273
Chapter 20.Politics 'As Passion' 283
Conclusion 287
Bibliography 289
Index 305