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

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Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination - Kahn, Paul W
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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 system have long been at work in our theological and philosophical tradition. Against this ...

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Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination 2021, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300261486

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Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination 2019, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300243413

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