Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination

by Paul W. Kahn

Book Overview

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history

Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered.

Paul W. Kahn shows how project and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300261489
• ISBN13: 9780300261486
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"