The health of nations : society and law beyond the state / / Philip Allott [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450317503321
• Autore: Allott Philip
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-13448-X; 1-280-43426-0; 0-511-17795-X; 0-511-04264-7; 0-511-14845-3; 0-511-30534-6; 0-511-49367-3; 0-511-04587-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 436 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 340/.115
• Soggetti: Sociological jurisprudence; Civil society; International law; Idealism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Society and law : The will to know and the will to power. Theory and moral responsibility -- The phenomenon of law -- Globalisation from above. Actualising the ideal through law -- The nation as mind politic. The making of the public mind -- New Enlightenment. The public mind of all-humanity -- 2. European society and its law : European governance and the re-branding of democracy -- The crisis of European constitutionalism. Reflections on a half-revolution -- The concept of European Union. Imagining -- The conversation that we are. The seven lamps of European unity -- 3. International society and its law : The concept of international law -- International law and the idea of history -- Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism -- International law and the international Hofmafia. ; Towards a sociology of diplomacy -- International law and international revolution. Reconceiving the world.
• Sommario/riassunto: The human world is changing. Old social structures are being overwhelmed by forces of social transformation which are sweeping across political and cultural frontiers. A social animal is becoming the social species. The animal that lives in packs and herds (family, corporation, nation, state) is becoming a member of a human society which is the society of all human beings, the society of all societies. The age-old problems of social life - religious, philosophical, moral, political, legal, economic - must now be addressed at the level of the whole species, and the level where all cultures and traditions meet and will contribute to an exhilarating and hazardous new form of human self-evolving. In this book Philip Allott explores the social and legal implications and potentialities of these developments in the light of the general theory of society and law which is proposed in his groundbreaking Eunomia: New Order for a New World.