The identity of the constitutional subject : selfhood, citizenship, culture, and community / / Michel Rosenfeld

• Autore: Rosenfeld Michel <1948-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.3; 342
• Soggetto topico: Constitutional law - Social aspects; Constitutional law - Psychological aspects; Constitutional law - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: Why Constitutional Identity and for Whom?; CHAPTER 1 The Constitutional Subject: Singular, Plural or Universal?; CHAPTER 2 The Constitutional Subject and the Clash of Self and Other: On the Uses of Negation, Metaphor and Metonymy; PART TWO: Producing Constitutional Identity; CHAPTER 3 Reinventing Tradition Through Constitutional Interpretation: The Case of Unenumerated Rights in the United States ; CHAPTER 4 Recasting and Reorienting Identity Through Constitution-Making: The Pivotal Case of Spain's 1978 ConstitutionPART THREE: Constitutional Identity as Bridge between Self and Other: Binding Together Citizenship, History and Society; CHAPTER 5 Constitutional Models: Shaping, Nurturing and Guiding the Constitutional Subject; CHAPTER 6 Models of Constitution Making; CHAPTER 7 The Constitutional Subject and Clashing Visions of Citizenship: Can We Be Beyond What We are Not? ; CHAPTER 8 Can the Constitutional Subject Go Global? Imagining a Convergence of the Universal, the Particular and the SingularNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global?Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively recent ones in Germany, Spain and South Africa, Michel Rosenfeld sheds light on the range of conditions necessary for the emergence, continuity and adaptability of a viable constitutional identity - citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, and human rights being important elements.T
• Titolo autorizzato: The identity of the constitutional subject
• ISBN: 1-135-25327-7; 1-135-25328-5; 1-282-37739-6; 9786612377396; 0-203-86898-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455358403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Discourses of law.