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Law is the great concealer; and law is everywhere. Or so claimed Marxists once upon a time. [Law] was imbricated within the mode of production and productive relations themselves . . . it intruded brusquely within alien categories, re-appearing bewigged and gowned in the form of ideology; . . . it was an arm of politics and politics was one of its arms; it was an academic discipline, subjected to the rigour of its own autonomous logic, it contributed to the definition of the self-identity of both the rulers 1 and the ruled. Does the old critique of domination still hold any sway? Apparently not. Or so even scholars of the far Left keep reminding us in their eagerness to embrace law and proclaim their allegiance to the new constitutional politics of civil society. Old Marxists now describe popular sovereignty as 'co-original' with, and democracy 'internally linked' to 2 constitutional rights and find it hard to remember what it was they once disagreed with liberals about. No tension left between emancipatory politics and oppressive law; instead we have reciprocal constitution, simultaneous realisation. In the Left's embracing of the new constitutionalisms its old critique of law - the critique of the law's concealment of class inequality, class conflict and class action - is left behind.

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• Preface and Acknowledgements(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. xiii)
• Part I Republican Constitutionalism
• Chapter 1. Citizenship, Passive and Active(p. 3)
• Chapter 2. Republicanism and its Legacy(p. 10)
• Chapter 3. Habermas on the 'Interpenetration' of Law and Politics(p. 19)
• Chapter 4. American Civic Republicanism(p. 31)
• Ackerman and the 'Discovery' of Constitutional Politics(p. 31)
• Sunstein and Michelman: 'Empathy' in 'Law's Republic'(p. 36)
• Deliberation, Distance and Empathy(p. 37)
• Institutional Deliberative Politics(p. 42)
• Sunstein's Institutional suggestion(p. 43)
• Michelman's Institutional suggestion(p. 45)
• The Critique of Elitism and the Retreat from the Institutional Dialogue(p. 48)
• Chapter 5. Dworkin and the Law as Forum of Principle(p. 52)
• The Interpretive Thesis(p. 53)
• Integrity: The Right Answer(p. 55)
• Integrity, Coherence, Narrative(p. 57)
• Dworkin Republican(p. 59)
• Chapter 6. The Containment Thesis(p. 61)
• Part II Political Conflict Under Legal Categories: A systems-theoretical critique of Republican Constitutionalism
• Excursus: Luhmann's Systems Theory: An Introduction(p. 73)
• Operations(p. 74)
• System and Meaning(p. 78)
• Observation(p. 81)
• Observation: system-centric and system-specific(p. 81)
• The Reduction of Complexity(p. 83)
• Society and Sub-systems(p. 84)
• Guiding Distinctions(p. 88)
• Chapter 7. Law, Society and Conflict(p. 96)
• The Juridification of Conflict(p. 97)
• Chapter 8. Law and the Double Contingency of Conflict(p. 102)
• Thesis [1] against Republicanism(p. 112)
• Chapter 9. Legal Expectations(p. 116)
• The Function of Law(p. 117)
• The Generalisation of Expectations as Legal(p. 120)
• The Temporal dimension(p. 121)
• The Social Dimension(p. 122)
• The Material Dimension(p. 124)
• Chapter 10. The Relationship of Conflict and Law(p. 129)
• Chapter 11. Conflicts Conflated(p. 136)
• Thesis [2] against Republicanism(p. 137)
• Thesis [3] against Republicanism(p. 141)
• Thesis [4] against Republicanism(p. 145)
• Chapter 12. Conflict Re-enacted(p. 149)
• Thesis [5] against Republicanism(p. 157)
• Thesis [6] against Republicanism(p. 163)
• Incitement to subvert(p. 168)
• Contempt of Court(p. 173)
• Chapter 13 Conflict Severed(p. 187)
• The Material Dimension(p. 187)
• Thesis [7] against Republicanism(p. 188)
• The Social Dimension(p. 192)
• Touraine and Melucci: Identity and Constitutive Conflict(p. 193)
• Simmel and Coser: Identity and 'Phenomenal' Conflict(p. 197)
• Thesis [8] against Republicanism(p. 200)
• Thesis [9] against Republicanism(p. 206)
• Thesis [10] against Republicanism(p. 209)
• Chapter 14. Conflict Normalised(p. 211)
• Thesis [11] against Republicanism(p. 220)
• Part III Reflexive Politics
• Chapter 15. The Exclusionary and the Reflexive(p. 227)
• Chapter 16. Theories of Political Reflexivity(p. 234)
• Cover: Reflexivity and Anarchy(p. 235)
• Lyotard: Reflexivity as the threat of the Differend(p. 237)
• Unger: Reflexivity as Negative Capability(p. 242)
• Chapter 17. Luhmann on Political Reflexivity(p. 248)
• Chapter 18. On Love, Marriage, Law and Politics(p. 256)
• The Facilitative Side of Marriage(p. 257)
• The Incompatibilities of Love and Marriage(p. 259)
• Exclusionary Reasons and the Community of Marriage(p. 265)
• Back to Politics(p. 269)
• Chapter 19. Contingency as Eigen-value of Politics(p. 273)
• [Reflexivity as second-order observation]
• Chapter 20. Politics 'As Passion'(p. 283)
• [Reflexivity as Self-Reference]
• Conclusion(p. 287)
• Bibliography(p. 289)
• Index(p. 305)