Description
| Product ID: | 9780300243413 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference |
| Title: | Origins of Order |
| Subtitle: | Project and System in the American Legal Imagination |
| Authors: | Author: Paul W. Kahn |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, History, Social and political philosophy, Legal history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & political philosophy, Legal history, USA, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Yale University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Yale University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-14 |
