Présentation de l'éditeur

From a legal-philosophical point of view, The Redress of Law presents a critical analysis of a number of related doctrinal fields: constitutional, labour and EU Law. Focusing on the organisation and protection of work, this book asks what it means to protect work as an essential aspect of human (individual and collective) flourishing. This is an ambitious and highly sophisticated intervention in contemporary academic and political debates around a set of critically important questions connected to processes of globalisation and market integration. The author redefines the nature of legal and political thought in an age in which market rationality has exceeded its classic domain and has come to pervade the organization of social and political life. This restatement of critical legal theory is intended to defend the concept of constitutionalism and suggest new ways to deploy the law strategically.

Emilios Christodoulidis holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of the award-winning Law and Reflexive Politics (1996), edits the book series Critical Studies in Jurisprudence, and serves as managing editor of Law & Critique.

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Introduction

Part I. Political Phenomenology:

1.1. Hannah Arendt and the theory of the bourgeois public sphere
1.2. Simone Weil, necessity and courage
1.3. The phenomenology of work
1.4. Toward a critical phenomenology

Part II. Political Constitutionalism:

2.1. Constituent power and the constitutional distinction
2.2. Constitutionality
2.3. Labour, solidarity and the social constitution
2.4. Constitutionalism adrift

Part III. Market Constitutionalism:

3.1. Market trajectories
3.2. 'Total market' thinking
3.3. Europe's social market and the disembedding of labour protection
3.4. The deep commodification of labour

Part IV. Strategies of redress:

4.1 The constitutional situation
4.2. Militant formalisms
4.3. Constitution, autogestion, rupture
4.4: Constitutionalising contradiction toward an open constitutional dialectic