Description: Rousseau's Constitutionalism Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Austerity and Republican Freedom Author(s): Eoin Daly Format: Paperback Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom Imprint: Hart Publishing ISBN-13: 9781509933136, 978-1509933136 Synopsis Despite Rousseau's legacy to political thought, his contribution as a constitutional theorist is underexplored. Drawing on his constitutional designs for Corsica and Poland, this book argues that Rousseau's constitutionalism is defined chiefly by its socially directive character. His constitutional projects are not aimed, primarily, at coordinating and containing state power in the familiar liberal-democratic sense. Instead, they are aimed at fostering the social conditions in which a fuller sense of freedom - understood broadly as non-domination - can be realised across all social domains. And in turn, since Rousseau views domination as being deeply embedded in complex social practices, his constitutionalism is aimed at fostering a radical austerity - social, economic and cultural - as its foil. In locating Rousseau's constitutional projects within his social and political theory of servitude and domination, this book will challenge the predominant focus and orientation of contemporary republican theory. Leading republican thinkers have drawn on the historical republican canon to articulate a model of constitutionalism which is, on the whole, 'liberal' in focus and orientation. This book will argue that the more communitarian orientation of Rousseau's constitutionalism - that is, its socially-directive focus - stems from a sophisticated and compelling account of the sources of unfreedom in complex societies, sources which are ignored or downplayed by the neo-republican literature. Rousseau embraces a communitarian social politics as part of his constitutional project precisely because, pessimistically, he views domination as being deeply embedded in the social relations of the liberal order.
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Book Title: Rousseau's Constitutionalism
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Rousseau's Constitutionalism: Austerity and Republican Freedom
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 234 mm
Subject: Law
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 277 g
Subject Area: Constitutional Law
Author: Dr Eoin Daly
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
