Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination - Paperback
by Paul W. Kahn
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul W. KahnSeries:Yale Law Library Legal History and ReferenceTheme:Chronological Period/19th CenturyPublish date:4/1/2021Pages:344
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300261486ISBN-10:0300261489UPC:9780300261486Book Category:Law, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Legal History, United States, PoliticalBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.436Product ID:SC5244GZV3
An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered. Paul W. Kahn shows how project and system have long been at work in our theological and philosophical tradition. Against this background, Kahn explains the development of the modern legal imagination in the nineteenth century as a movement from project to system. Americans began the century imagining the constitutional order as their common project: a deliberate construction of We the People. They ended the century imagining that order is continuous with the common law: an immanent development of the principles of civilization. This imaginative shift affected ideas of legal text, sovereignty, citizenship, interpretation, history, and science.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300261486ISBN-10:0300261489UPC:9780300261486Book Category:Law, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Legal History, United States, PoliticalBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.436Product ID:SC5244GZV3
Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is the author of many books, including Making the Case, Political Theology, The Cultural Study of Law, and The Reign of Law.
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