TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oklopcic,Zoran
TI  - Beyond the people: social imaginary and constituent imagination 
T2  - Oxford constitutional theory
SN  - 9780191839573
AV  - JC421 
U1  - 321.801 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - thema
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 'Beyond the People' develops a provocative, interdisciplinary, and meta-theoretical critique of the idea of popular sovereignty. It asks simple but far-reaching questions: Can 'imagined' communities, or 'invented' peoples, ever be theorized without, at the same time, being re-imagined and re-invented anew? Can polemical concepts, such as popular sovereignty or constituent power, be theorized objectively? If, as this book argues, the answer to these questions is no, theorists who approach the figure of a sovereign people must acknowledge that their activity is inseparable from the practice of constituent imagination. Though widely accepted as important, even vital, for the development of political concepts, the social practice of imagination is almost always presumed to operate either historically or impersonally, but seldom individually
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799092.001.0001
ER  -