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The Power of Language in the Making of International Law : The Word Sovereignty in Bodin and Vattel and the Myth of Westphalia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Developments in International Law SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781280914867
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Power of Language in the Making of International LawLOC classification:
  • KZ1331 -- .B43 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: GROUNDWORK: WORDS, MYTHS, POWER -- CHAPTER 1: THE FUNCTION OF WORDS -- 1.1. Meaning is Meaningless -- 1.2. Creating and Transforming Language -- CHAPTER 2: THE LOGIC OF MYTHOLOGY -- 2.1. Origin Myths -- 2.2. Myths and Mythical Reality -- 2.3. Myths as Social Power -- 2.4. Summary -- GROUNDWORK EPILOGUE -- PART II: LANGUAGE: AN "INWARD-OUTWARD" APPROACH -- CHAPTER 3: DECONSTRUCTING DECONSTRUCTION -- 3.1. Deconstructionist Analysis -- 3.2. Deconstructionist Strategy -- 3.3. Summary -- CHAPTER 4: THE HERMENEUTICS OF HERMENEUTICS -- 4.1. The Traditional Hermeneutics -- 4.2. The First Critique of Hermeneutics -- 4.3. The Modern Hermeneutics -- 4.4. The Second Critique of Hermeneutics -- 4.5. Summary -- PART III: THE SOCIAL POWER OF THE MYTH OF WESTPHALIA -- CHAPTER 5: THE "WESTPHALIAN STATE" SYSTEM -- 5.1. Heteronomous Organisation and Transcendental Institutions -- 5.2. Dynamics and War of Religion and Politics -- 5.3. The Peace Treaties -- 5.4. Westphalia's Aftermath -- 5.5. Summary -- PART IV: THE SOCIAL POWER OF THE WORD SOVEREIGNTY -- CHAPTER 6: BODIN'S SOVEREIGNTY: POWER-CENTRALISER -- 6.1. Immediate Personal Context -- 6.2. The Discourse in Les six Livres de la Republique -- 6.3. Extended Historical Context -- 6.4. Summary -- CHAPTER 7: VATTEL'S SOVEREIGNTY: AUTHORITY-EXTERNALISER -- 7.1. Immediate Personal Context -- 7.2. The Discourse in Le Droit des Gens -- 7.3. Extended Historical Context -- 7.4. Summary -- CONCLUSION.
Summary: It is in the intellectual context of the new possibility of philosophy, and the great new challenge facing philosophy, that I place Stéphane Beaulac's important book. His work takes advantage, in particular, of several of the hard-earned lessons of twentieth-century philosophy and social experience. From the Foreword.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: GROUNDWORK: WORDS, MYTHS, POWER -- CHAPTER 1: THE FUNCTION OF WORDS -- 1.1. Meaning is Meaningless -- 1.2. Creating and Transforming Language -- CHAPTER 2: THE LOGIC OF MYTHOLOGY -- 2.1. Origin Myths -- 2.2. Myths and Mythical Reality -- 2.3. Myths as Social Power -- 2.4. Summary -- GROUNDWORK EPILOGUE -- PART II: LANGUAGE: AN "INWARD-OUTWARD" APPROACH -- CHAPTER 3: DECONSTRUCTING DECONSTRUCTION -- 3.1. Deconstructionist Analysis -- 3.2. Deconstructionist Strategy -- 3.3. Summary -- CHAPTER 4: THE HERMENEUTICS OF HERMENEUTICS -- 4.1. The Traditional Hermeneutics -- 4.2. The First Critique of Hermeneutics -- 4.3. The Modern Hermeneutics -- 4.4. The Second Critique of Hermeneutics -- 4.5. Summary -- PART III: THE SOCIAL POWER OF THE MYTH OF WESTPHALIA -- CHAPTER 5: THE "WESTPHALIAN STATE" SYSTEM -- 5.1. Heteronomous Organisation and Transcendental Institutions -- 5.2. Dynamics and War of Religion and Politics -- 5.3. The Peace Treaties -- 5.4. Westphalia's Aftermath -- 5.5. Summary -- PART IV: THE SOCIAL POWER OF THE WORD SOVEREIGNTY -- CHAPTER 6: BODIN'S SOVEREIGNTY: POWER-CENTRALISER -- 6.1. Immediate Personal Context -- 6.2. The Discourse in Les six Livres de la Republique -- 6.3. Extended Historical Context -- 6.4. Summary -- CHAPTER 7: VATTEL'S SOVEREIGNTY: AUTHORITY-EXTERNALISER -- 7.1. Immediate Personal Context -- 7.2. The Discourse in Le Droit des Gens -- 7.3. Extended Historical Context -- 7.4. Summary -- CONCLUSION.

It is in the intellectual context of the new possibility of philosophy, and the great new challenge facing philosophy, that I place Stéphane Beaulac's important book. His work takes advantage, in particular, of several of the hard-earned lessons of twentieth-century philosophy and social experience. From the Foreword.

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