1st Edition
Law, Democracy and the Crisis of Foundation Deconstructive and Constructive Perspectives
Edited By Giuditta Bissiato
Copyright 2025
104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book addresses the crisis of the juridical-political foundation within contemporary democracies.
Although modernity is the age of foundation, it is marked by what Carl Schmitt referred to as a peculiar ‘dialectic of presence and absence’ – and this is true even for those theories that seem to be the greatest supporters of the necessity of some kind of foundation, such as the Hobbesian... Read more
Introduction
Giuditta Bissiato, editor
1. Democracy without Foundation
Antonino Scalone
2. The People is Nowhere Here: Political Representation without Foundation
Giuditta Bissiato
3. Ironic Law? A New Foundation from Schmittian Romanticism
Francesca Monateri
4. Public Choice and Post-Foundationalism: Constitutions, Democracy and Economic Rationality
Giacomo Brioni
5. The Crisis of Foundation and Democratic Representation: A Behavioral Perspective
Jacopo Marchetti
Afterword
Giacomo Brioni
Biography
Giuditta Bissiato is PhD in Philosophy at the Universities of Pisa and Florence, Italy.
