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Legal and Political Thinking Against Sovereignty A European Intellectual History
By Hugo Canihac
Copyright 2026
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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At the intersection of the history of constitutional ideas and of political theory, this book offers a new genealogy of the constitutional thought of the European Union. Centrally, the book traces the emergence and transformation of the ‘post-sovereign thesis’ – an argument that seeks to move beyond the routine opposition between states and European organization, by claiming the concept of... Read more
Chapter 1 – Post-sovereign imaginaries in the history of European political and legal thought, Chapter 2 – Louis Le Fur and conservative post-sovereignty, Chapter 3 – Georges Scelle and solidarist post-sovereignty, Chapter 4 – Carl Friedrich and neoliberal post-sovereignty, Chapter 5 – Hans Peter Ipsen and technocratic post-sovereignty, Chapter 6 – Neil MacCormick and civic post-sovereignty, Conclusion
Biography
Hugo Canihac, Associate Professor of European Politics, University of Strasbourg.
