Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics : Time Out of Joint

Présentation de l'éditeur : "In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the way in which law and politics function, the influence of the contemporary experience of time on law and politics remains underdeveloped. How, for example, does society's structural acceleration impact on justice? Does law actually offer stability and predictability in an ever-changing global world? How can legal and political institutions function in the wake of ever-increasing uncertainty? Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this very tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that the contributors to this collection - drawn from different fields of law, as well as from other disciplines - examine." Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Temporal boundaries of politics and law: time out of joint -- Introduction -- Justice, legal certainty, expediency -- An overview of the chapters -- Bibliography -- PART 1: Justice -- 1. Judging the past: three ways of understanding time -- 'A past that does not pass': a new order of historicity -- Putting the past in the present: the moment of justice -- A new way of allocating institutions to space and time -- Epilogue: justice as a spiritual power -- Bibliography -- 2. Law at the right time: a plea for slow law in hasty times -- Law's untimeliness -- Resistance to change -- Radical temporality -- Innovation and continuity -- Legal forms and legal change -- Epilogue: the 'Novum' -- Bibliography -- 3. Law, time and inhumanity: reflections on the imprescriptible -- Introduction -- The law of imprescriptibility -- Imprescriptibility and the unforgiveable -- The time of imprescriptibility -- The time of judgment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- PART 2: Legal certainty -- 4. Airports built on shifting grounds? Social acceleration and the temporal dimension of law -- Introduction -- Social acceleration and dynamic stabilization -- Law as a functional decelerator -- Law as a re-synchronizer -- Inter-social de-synchronization: constitutional law, markets and legislation -- Law under pressure -- Bibliography -- 5. Suspended in Gaffa: legal slowness in the acceleration society -- Introduction -- Late modern times: social acceleration -- The Eigenzeit of law -- Legal slowness -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- 6. Uncertain futures and the problem of constraining emergency powers: temporal dimensions of Carl Schmitt's theory of the state of exception -- Introduction -- Coping with an uncertain future: Carl Schmitt in Weimar Présentation de l'éditeur : "In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the way in which law and politics function, the influence of the contemporary experience of time on law and politics remains underdeveloped. How, for example, does society's structural acceleration impact on justice? Does law actually offer stability and predictability in an ever-changing global world? How can legal and political institutions function in the wake of ever-increasing uncertainty? Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this very tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that the contributors to this collection - drawn from different fields of law, as well as from other disciplines - examine." "In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the way in which law and politics function, the influence of the contemporary experience of time on law and politics remains underdeveloped. How, for example, does society's structural acceleration impact on justice? Does law actually offer stability and predictability in an ever-changing global world? How can legal and political institutions function in the wake of ever-increasing uncertainty? Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this very tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that the contributors to this collection - drawn from different fields of law, as well as from other disciplines - examine."-- Provided by publisher Contents List of contributors Temporal boundaries of politics and law: time out of joint Part 1: Justice 1 Judging the past: three ways of understanding time 2 Law at the right time: a plea for slow law in hasty times 3 Law, time and inhumanity: reflections on the imprescriptible Part 2: Legal certainty 4 Airports built on shifting grounds? Social acceleration and the temporal dimension of law 5 Suspended in Gaffa: legal slowness in the acceleration society 6 Uncertain futures and the problem of constraining emergency powers: temporal dimensions of Carl Schmitt’s theory of the state of exception 7 Constitutional preambles and the uncertain future Part 3: Expediency 8 Collective memory, constitutional polity and differentiation of modern society 9 Informing life: temporal politics of information in the administration of pandemics 10 Immediacy, potentia and constraining emergency powers Index In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has taken centre stage in social theoretical and sociological debate. Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that this collection examines.