Sammenslutningens kunst: Om føderalisme hos Johannes Althusius og Hannah Arendt
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https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v19i3.27410Abstract
This article discusses the theories of federalism as formulated by the early modern
thinker Johannes Althusius and by 20th century political thinker Hannah Arendt. The
article ventures into a discussion on the specific democratic attributes of Althusius’ and
Arendt’s federal visions, focusing on the federal nature of Althusius’ concept of association
and Arendt’s concept of the promise. Moreover, the article argues for understanding
Althusius’ and Arendt’s federalisms as expressions of the constituent power, as
a way in which the collectivity can organize itself institutionally without relinquishing
their original power to constitute new institutional forms. Finally, the article seeks to
place federalism in a historical and conceptual discussion with state sovereignty, hereby
denaturalizing the idea of the state as modernity’s only political form, by showing the
key differences between state sovereignty and the central tenets of Althusius’ and Arendt’s
notions of federalism. The article concludes by enumerating two political principles
of the federation, namely association and self-rule.
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Walzer, M. (1982) Revolution of the Saints: A Study on the Origins of Radical Thought, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Wood E. (2012) Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment, London: Verso Press.
Arendt H. (2007) The Jewish Writings, New York: Schocken Books.
Arendt H. (2008) Menneskets vilkår, København: Gyldendal.
Arendt H. (2012) Om Revolution, Aarhus: Forlaget Klim.
Bobbio, N. (1993) Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bodin, J. (1992) On Sovereignty: Four Chapters From the Six Books of the Commonwealth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cohen, J. (2012) ‘Federation’. In Political Concepts 1, no. 1, 2013. Accessed February 5th, 2016. http://www.politicalconcepts.org/issue1/federation/
Diamond, M. (2011), ‘The Ends of Federalism’. In: Federalism, Vol. 1, 219–40, London:Sage Publications.
Elazar, D. (1995) ‘Althusius’ Grand Design for a Federal Commonwealth’. In: Carney,F (ed.): Johannes Althusius’ Politica, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund..
Elazar, D. (1998) Constitutionalizing Globalization: The Postmodern Revival of Confederal Arrangements, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Elazar D. (2011) ‘The Political Theory of Covenant: Biblical Origins and Modern Developments’. In: Federalism, Vol. 1, 1-28, London: Sage Publications.
Franklin, J. (1969) Constitutionalism and Resistance in the 16th Century, New York: Pegasus.
Franklin J. (1973) Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gierke, O. (1990) Community in Historical Perspective, New York: Columbia University Press.
Hamilton, A., Madison, J., & Jay, J. (1961) The Federalist Papers, New York: Signet Classic.
Hobbes, T. (1994) Leviathan, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Hueglin, T. (2011) ‘Federalism at the Crossroads: Old Meanings, New Significance’. In: Federalism, Vol. 4, 333-352, London: Sage Publications.
Inman, R. (2011) ‘Federalism’s Values and the Value of Federalism’. In: Federalism, Vol. 1, 259–92, London: Sage Publications.
Kalyvas A. (2008) Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kalyvas A. (2013) ‘Constituent Power’. In: Political Concepts 3, no. 1. Accessed February 5, 2016.
http://www.politicalconcepts.org/constituentpower/.
Kalyvas A. (2016) ‘Rethinking ‘Modern’ Democracy: Political Modernity and Constituent Power’. In: Wagner, P. (ed.) The Trouble with Democracy: Political Modernity in the 21st Century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Kincaid, J. (2011) ‘Values and Value Tradeoffs in Federalism’. In: Federalism, Vol. 1, 241–258, London: Sage Publications.
Klusmeyer, D. (2010) ‘Hannah Arendt’s Case for Federalism’. In: Publius: The Journal of Federalism 40, no. 1: 31–58.
Loughlin, M. & Walker, N. (2007) The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mornay P. (1969) ‘Vindicae contra tyrannos’. In: Franklin, J. (ed.) Constitutionalism and Resistance in the Sixteenth Century, New York: Pegasus.
Riker, W. (2011) ‘The Origin and Purposes of Federalism’. In: Federalism, Vol. 1, 189-218, London: Sage Publications.
Rubin, G. (2015) ‘From Federalism to Binationalism: Hannah Arendt’s Shifting Zionism’. In: Contemporary European History, vol. 24 (3), pp. 393-414.
Schmitt C. (2002) Det Politiskes Begreb, København: Hans Reitzel.
Selinger, W. (2016) ‘The Politics of Arendtian Historiography: European Federation and The Origins of Totalitarianism’. In: Modern Intellectual History, Available on CJO 2014 doi:10.1017/S1479244314000560.
Skinner Q. (1978). The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Age of Reformation, Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Skinner Q. (2002) Visions of Politics: Regarding Method, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Walzer, M. (1982) Revolution of the Saints: A Study on the Origins of Radical Thought, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Wood E. (2012) Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment, London: Verso Press.
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2016-09-01
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Popp-Madsen, B. A. (2016). Sammenslutningens kunst: Om føderalisme hos Johannes Althusius og Hannah Arendt. Politik, 19(3). https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v19i3.27410
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