Legal and Political Thinking Against Sovereignty by Hugo Canihac - 9781032698236

Legal and Political Thinking Against SovereigntyA European Intellectual History\nAuthor(s): Hugo Canihac\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032698236, 978-1032698236\nSynopsis\nAt the intersection of the history of constitutional ideas and of political theory, this book offers a new genealogy of the constitutional thought of the European Union. Centrally, the book traces the emergence and transformation of the post-sovereign thesis an argument that seeks to move beyond the routine opposition between states and European organization, by claiming the concept of sovereignty to be obsolete and its complicated relationship with liberalism. Analyzing the thought of a series of constitutional thinkers who have developed different versions of this thesis in relation to European integration, the book shows that, far from being new, as is generally assumed, the post-sovereign thesis goes back to the late nineteenth century.