TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics as Realitätsprinzip in the debate on constitutions and fragmented orders
T2 - Remarks 'On constitutions and fragmented orders'
AU - Kurowska, Xymena
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The promise of constitutionalisation is, according to Kratochwil, the existential comfort that comes from having a coherent framework for judgement and action. This apparent epistemological confidence comes at the price of parting with a realistic assessment of the concrete situation, and it conceals that politics operate across all levels all the time. This paper critiques this vision and points beyond the idea of exhaustive frameworks. Figuring out contextually appropriate configurations of constitutionalisation and fragmentation allows for greater agency and pluralism. A more fundamental tension in Kratochwil's work remains, however, his falling back on the abstract to articulate the experiential.
AB - The promise of constitutionalisation is, according to Kratochwil, the existential comfort that comes from having a coherent framework for judgement and action. This apparent epistemological confidence comes at the price of parting with a realistic assessment of the concrete situation, and it conceals that politics operate across all levels all the time. This paper critiques this vision and points beyond the idea of exhaustive frameworks. Figuring out contextually appropriate configurations of constitutionalisation and fragmentation allows for greater agency and pluralism. A more fundamental tension in Kratochwil's work remains, however, his falling back on the abstract to articulate the experiential.
KW - Constitutionalisation
KW - context
KW - fragmentation
KW - subversion
KW - theory
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U2 - 10.1017/S1752971920000573
DO - 10.1017/S1752971920000573
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098691784
SN - 1752-9719
JO - International Theory
JF - International Theory
ER -