The Health of Nations: Society and Law beyond the State

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 9
Social pathology......Page 11
Practical theory......Page 12
Law......Page 13
Method......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 17
PART I Society and law......Page 19
Theory and Istopia......Page 21
Theory and society......Page 26
Theory and the university......Page 32
Theory and the philosophers......Page 34
Theory and imagination......Page 39
Theory and pathology......Page 45
Theory and Eutopia......Page 50
II. The emerging universal legal system. The law of all laws......Page 54
Law’s reality......Page 55
Lawyers’ philosophies......Page 63
II. The emerging universal legal system. The law of all laws......Page 74
III. Deliver us from social evil. International criminal law and moral order......Page 80
3 Globalisation from above......Page 88
Becoming......Page 89
Minds......Page 90
Realities......Page 92
Constitutions......Page 97
The ideal......Page 99
The legal......Page 102
The real......Page 106
Globalisation from below......Page 110
Globalisation from bove......Page 112
Humanism and naturalism......Page 115
Nation and identity......Page 127
Nation and state......Page 134
Nation and pathology......Page 139
5 New Enlightenment......Page 150
The mind’s freedom......Page 151
Law’s power......Page 152
Millennial potentiality......Page 153
Surpassing the past......Page 154
The health of nations – human inhumanity......Page 156
The health of nations – de-humanising humanity......Page 157
The health of nations – re-humanising humanity......Page 161
Self-resisting mind......Page 162
Self-knowing mind......Page 164
The misconceiving of democracy......Page 166
Law and freedom......Page 168
The Eunomian project......Page 170
The Eutopian project......Page 171
PART II European society and its law......Page 177
6 European governance and the re-branding of democracy......Page 179
The governance of virtue......Page 180
Who governs the governors?......Page 183
The lure of anti-politics......Page 188
The government of Europe......Page 192
New Europe......Page 199
7 The crisis of European constitutionalism......Page 200
Constitutional psychology: France, Great Britain......Page 201
Constitutional psychology: Germany......Page 216
Half-revolution......Page 223
The presence of the past......Page 228
Ideas and illusions......Page 234
Making the future......Page 240
8 The concept of European Union......Page 247
The self and the other – the dilemma of identity......Page 249
The one and the many – the dilemma of power......Page 253
Unity of nature, plurality of value – the dilemma of the will......Page 261
Justice and social justice – the dilemma of order......Page 265
New citizens, old laws – the dilemma of becoming......Page 269
Making the economic constitution......Page 271
The precession effect......Page 274
The macro–micro fault-line......Page 277
European Union as European society......Page 279
Public mind......Page 281
The conversation......Page 283
The sacred......Page 285
The ideal......Page 286
The imaginary......Page 288
The real......Page 290
The social......Page 294
The suffering......Page 299
The future......Page 301
PART III International society and its law......Page 305
10 The concept of international law......Page 307
The social function of law......Page 308
Law and social psychology......Page 309
Law and justice......Page 311
Law and the common interest......Page 313
The international legal system......Page 315
The making of international law: (1) customary international law......Page 317
The making of international law: (2) treaty-law......Page 322
The future of the international legal system......Page 328
The new paradigm......Page 333
11 International law and the idea of history......Page 334
Law’s histories......Page 335
The third memory......Page 338
The third memory and international law......Page 344
The lure of historicism......Page 349
The making of the past......Page 353
From human history to human law......Page 357
Human memory......Page 358
12 Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism......Page 360
The challenge of intergovernmental public power......Page 361
Constitutionalism as social theory......Page 362
International societies and social theory......Page 365
The presence of the past......Page 368
The genealogy of constitutionalism......Page 369
The genetics of constitutionalism......Page 371
(1) Divine order......Page 372
(2) The sovereignty of law......Page 375
(3) Cosmic order......Page 379
(4) Natural social order......Page 384
The naturally artificial 69......Page 388
Three mythologies and a heresy......Page 391
The generic principles of constitutionalism......Page 394
The constitutionalising of intergovernmental organisations: captor captus 86......Page 396
Representative aristocracy......Page 398
The Great Game......Page 403
Public Law......Page 406
The New Law of Nations......Page 409
The new aristocracy......Page 414
14 International law and international revolution......Page 417
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 441
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 447