Join, or Die – Philosophical Foundations of Federalism / / Dietmar Heidemann, Katja Stoppenbrink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• HerausgeberIn: Heidemann, Dietmar,; Stoppenbrink, Katja,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 286 p.)

Research on federalism is rarely concerned with its philosophical foundations. However, arguments on why and how best to organise a plurality of states in a multilevel political order have first been discussed by philosophers and continue to inspire contemporary reasoning on international and supranational relations not only in political philosophy. This book offers a unique overview of the philosophical foundations of federalism from both a historical and a systematic perspective. The analyses proposed by renowned scholars from the US and from several European countries cover classic writers such as Hobbes and the authors of the Federalist Papers, Kant and Rawls, and range from anthropological justifications of federal orders to contemporary problems of EU constitutionalism, the principle of subsidiarity and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The book is of relevance to anyone interested in philosophical justifications of federalism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Gibt es spirituelle Voraussetzungen säkularer Politik? Thomas Hobbes über das „Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill“ -- Leibniz and European Cosmopolitanism -- Radical Enlightenment: Existential Kantian Cosmopolitan Anarchism, With a Concluding Quasi-Federalist Postscript -- Letzte Zwecke. Die Grundlegung des Föderalismus in Kants politischer Teleologie -- Der ungerechte Bundesgenosse. Über die inhaltlichen Grenzen des (Staatsund) Völkerrechts in Kants Rechtslehre -- The Federalist Papers, Federalism and Democratic Representation -- E timore unum: When Fear Invites Itself at the Birth of the Federal Republic of America -- Wie man der Tugend aufhelfen kann. Zur philosophischen Begründung einer föderalen Organisation des Gemeinwesens -- Naturzustand und Völkerrecht. Hegel über Kants Idee eines Föderalismus freier Staaten, auf den das Völkerrecht zu gründen sei -- Representative Government and Federalism in John Stuart Mill -- Föderalismus und Subsidiarität. Über horizontale und vertikale Verteilung politischer Lasten in der Demokratie -- Subsidiarity to the Rescue for the European Courts? Resolving Tensions Between the Margin of Appreciation and Human Rights Protection -- List of Contributors -- Index