Cover; Series; Beyond the People; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; A Note on the Cover; A note on Usage; Chapter 1 A Different Beginning: Theory as Imagination; 1. A sovereign people and its two realms; 2. Videre aude: theory as imagination; 3. Twining's Palomar and his 'cosmic wisdom'; 4. Imaginative theory as constituent imagination; 5. Purposeful imagination: polemical, practical, productive; 6. Visual imagination: figures, stages, gazes; 7. Quasi-narrative imagination: crypto and proto; 8. Affective imagination: affected and affecting; 9. Ambiental imagination:
10. Conceptual imagination and the paper tools of theoryChapter 2 Constituent Imagination: Behind Popular Expectations; 2. The people: from ridiculous (1956) to ridiculous (2016); 3. Popular expectations: back to the future past; 4. Jeopardy, futility, perversity: learning from reaction; 5. The people: an anatomy of a polemical concept; 6. Creator vs Framework: one binary to rule them all; 7. Beyond perspectives: the work of figuration; 8. Emblems, ensembles, polymorphs, isomorphs; 9. Image schemata and the laws of contrast; 10. The anxious loop of popular sovereignty
11. Kelsenian 'tendency' and the imaginative spectroscopyChapter 3 Many, Other, Place, Frame: Beyond a Sovereign People; 1. A sovereign: staged and dramatized; 2. The dramatistic quartet: ; 3. Behind the stage: ex nihilo and its creatio; 4. Behind the stage: dramatizing constituent power; 5. Behind the people: friends, enemies, and their thirds; 6. From Schmitt's anxiety to Kelsen's 'tendency'; 7. Hollow topologies: constituent dramatism today; 8. The people, (semiotically) squared; Chapter 4 Hope, Telos, Xenos: Beyond Constituent Power; 1. Constituting: what is it good for?
2. Constituent power and its prompters3. Constituting: founding and withstanding; 4. Constituent power as the prognostic inscription; 5. Theorizing: moral hazards and polemical gambles; 6. Reconceptualizing: polemical clarifications; 7. Scripting: Schmittian contamination; 8. Scripting: Lockean exhaustion; 9. Imagining (others): beyond reified stratagems; 10. Bloch's Vorgriff: a way of seeing; Chapter 5 Nephos, Scopos, Algorithm: Beyond Self-Determination (I); 1. Self-determination: five ways beyond; 2. From emblematic holders to fuzzy ensembles
3. Nephos: Kelsen's 'ocean' as a political aerosol4. Granular attitudes: Kelsen's 'torment' as Bloch's 'contradictions'; 5. Scopos: polemical space beyond the Place; 6. Self-determination: the geography of failure (I); 7. Self-determination: the geography of failure (II); 8. Imagining denominators: beyond transubstantiation; 9. Imagining denominators: beyond circularity; 10. Normative theory and its 'red-haired man'; Chapter 6 The Nomos and the Gaze: Beyond Self-Determination (II); 1. International jurists and their mental maps; 2. Self-determination: beyond the jigsaw puzzle
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A transdisciplinary account of the polemical vocabularies of sovereignty, democracy, self-determination, constituent power, and constitutionalism, this book is a pioneering attempt to systematically envision these ideals and polemical concepts, not just as the objects of scholarly inquiry, but also as products of theoretical imaginations.