Deconstructive Constitutionalism: Derrida Reading Kant

Deconstructive Constitutionalism explores the relationship between Kant and Derrida's views on modern constitutionalism, highlighting the challenges posed by climate change, global health, conflict, authoritarianism, populism, religion, migration, and inequality. It proposes a re-reading of Kant to address these challenges and their implications for democracy, the human-animal relation, criminal law, and a global constitutional order.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 218 pages
Publication date: 02 July 2023
Publisher: State University of New York Press

Deconstructive Constitutionalism delves into the intricate relationship between the thought of Immanuel Kant and Jacques Derrida regarding modern constitutionalism. Kant, widely acknowledged as a philosophical precursor of modern constitutionalism, posits that state powers should be defined and constrained through a constitution. Kant's seminal contributions, encompassing freedom, practical reason, and moral law, laid the groundwork for constitutionalism. However, contemporary constitutionalism faces significant challenges, including climate change, global health crises, global conflicts, authoritarianism, authoritarian populism, religious fundamentalism, migration, and inequality. Deconstructive Constitutionalism explores how a re-reading of Kant's ideas can offer alternative perspectives to address these twenty-first-century challenges. The book examines the potential ramifications of such a reinterpretation of Kant for democracy, the human-animal relationship, criminal law and punishment, and the establishment of a global constitutional order.

Weight: 340g
Dimension: 150 x 229 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781438491721