{"product_id":"origins-of-order-paul-w-kahn-9780300261486","title":"Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Paul W. Kahn shows how project and system have long been at work in our theological and philosophical tradition. Against this background, Kahn explains the development of the modern legal imagination in the nineteenth century as a movement from project to system. Americans began the century imagining the constitutional order as their common project: a deliberate construction of We the People. They ended the century imagining that order is continuous with the common law: an immanent development of the principles of civilization. This imaginative shift affected ideas of legal text, sovereignty, citizenship, interpretation, history, and science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul W. Kahn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300261489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300261486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d","brand":"Paul W. Kahn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43944816247039,"sku":"9780300261486","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9f7b3157-da4f-4938-89e6-e75da3137ac2.jpg?v=1681505228","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/origins-of-order-paul-w-kahn-9780300261486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}