Contributes to the field of systems theory of law in the context of European legal and political integration and constitution-making. This book puts European legislative efforts and policies, especially the EU enlargement process, in the context of legal theory and philosophy.
Author(s): Jiri Priban
Series: Applied Legal Philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 243
Contents......Page 6
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
PART I: THEORY OF SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION IN LAW: A SOCIAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE......Page 18
1 Constitution-Making and the Symbolic Rationality of Law: A Systemic Differentiation of Law, Politics and Morality......Page 20
2 The Symbolic Evolution of Political Identity from the Spirit of the Laws......Page 42
3 Law and the Symbolization of Time: The Limits of Dealing with the Past and Future......Page 64
PART II: IDENTITY AND LAW: EUROPEAN REFLECTIONS ON DEMOS AND ETHNOS......Page 86
4 Civil and Ethnic Traditions and Identities: Post-Communist Constitution-Making in Central Europe......Page 88
5 Identity, Constitution-Making and the Enlargement of the European Union......Page 110
6 The Symbolic Power of European Law and Search of European Politics......Page 132
PART III: THE TEMPORALITY OF JUSTICE: BETWEEN RETROSPECTIVE LAWS AND PROSPECTIVE POLITICS......Page 156
7 The Retrospectivity of Laws and the Temporality of Justice in Post-Communist Central Europe......Page 158
8 Moral Paradoxes of Legal Justice: An Analysis of Restitutive and Administrative Dealing with the Past......Page 182
9 On Legal Symbolism and Social Theory: Concluding Remarks......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 218
C......Page 238
G......Page 239
J......Page 240
N......Page 241
S......Page 242
Z......Page 243
