Memory in the Construction of Constitutions |
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| Authors: | Michael Schä fer |
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| Affiliation: | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | In connection with the contemporary debates in political philosophy between liberal, republican and proceduralist–deliberative views of democratic politics, I deal with the question of how the different concepts in these debates can be related to the particular national history, memories and expectations of a polity. I shall concentrate on one German example of the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy, in order to show that political philosophy must pay more attention to the different shared practices and understandings within each liberal society. |
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