Read more
European Constitutional Imaginaries promises to open debates on European constitutionalism that are necessary to understanding Europe's present predicament and its various crises, all navigated through the medium of law.
List of contents
- 1: Jan Komárek: European Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, ideologies and the other
- Part 1: Constitutional Imaginaries of the Past, Present, and Future of Europe
- 2: Jiri Priban: European Constitutional Imaginaries: On pluralism, calculemus, imperium and communitas
- 3: Marco Dani and Agustín José Menéndez: European Constitutional Imagination: A whig interpretation of the process of european integration?
- 4: Signe Larsen: The European Union as 'Militant Democracy'?
- 5: Claudia Schrag Sternberg: Ideologies and Imaginaries of Legitimacy from the 1950s to Today: Trajectories of EU-Official Discourses Read Against Rosanvallon's Democratic Legitimacy
- Part II: At The Origins of Constitutional Imaginary - The work of selected european constitutionalists revisited
- 6: Jan Komárek: Why Read The Transformation of Europe Today? On the Limits of a Liberal Constitutional Imaginary
- 7: Alexander Somek and Jakob Rendl: Messianism, Exodus, and the Empty Signifier of European Integration
- 8: Hugo Canihac: From Constitutional Pyramid to Constitutional Pluralism: The transformation of the european constitutional imaginary in context
- 9: Amnon Lev: The Imaginary and the Unconscious: Situating constitutional pluralism
- Part III: Rethinking Constitutional Imaginaries for the Present
- 10: Peter L. Lindseth: The Constitutional Imaginary and the 'Metabolic' Realities of European Integration
- 11: Neil Walker: The European Public Good and European Public Goods
- 12: Kalypso Nicolaïdis: The Peoples Imagined: Constituting a Demoicratic European Polity
- 13: Paul Linden Retek: Constitutional Patriotism as Europe's Public Philosophy? On the Responsiveness of Post-national Law
- Part IV: Without Political Economy: There can be no constitutional imaginary
- 14: Michael A Wilkinson: On the New German Ideology
- 15: Hjalte Lokdam: Beyond Neoliberal Federalism? The Ideological Shade of the Eurozone's Constitutional Order after the Eurozone Crisis
- 16: Jeffrey Miller and Fernanda Nicola: The Failure to Grapple with Racial Capitalism in European Constitutionalism
- 17: Damjan Kukovec: Constitutionalism and Powerlessness
- 18: Marija Bartl: Imaginaries of Progress as Constitutional Imaginaries
- 19: Jan Komárek: Conclusion: Making "the Other" Explicit
About the author
Jan Komárek is Professor of European law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and iCourts - the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts (since 2017). Previously he worked as assistant and later associate professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2011-2017), after obtaining doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2011. He had also worked at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004-2006) and the Czech Constitutional Court (2009-2010 - legal secretary to the Court's president). He is the member of the Editorial Board of European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst) and European Law Open (both published by the CUP). In 2019-2024 he is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant Project (no. 803163) "IMAGINE: European Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other".
Summary
European Constitutional Imaginaries promises to open debates on European constitutionalism that are necessary to understanding Europe's present predicament and its various crises, all navigated through the medium of law.
