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- catalog abstract ""Should we try to "live in the present"? Such is the imperative of modernity Jed Rubenfeld writes in this important and original work of political theory. Since Jefferson proclaimed that "the earth belongs to the living"--Since Freud announced that mental health requires people to "get free of their past" - since Nietzsche declared that the happy man is the man who "leaps" into "the moment" - modernity has directed its inhabitants to live in the present, as if there alone could they find happiness, authenticity, and above all freedom." "But this imperative, Rubenfeld argues, rests on a profoundly inadequate, deforming picture of the relationship between freedom and time. Instead, Rubenfeld suggests, human freedom - human being itself - necessarily extends into both past and future; self-government consists of giving our lives meaning and purpose over time. From this conception of self-government, Rubenfeld derives a new theory of constitutional law's place in democracy. Democracy, he writes, is not a matter of governance by the present "will of the people"; it is a matter of a nation's laying down and living up to enduring political and legal commitments. Constitutionalism is not counter to democracy, as many believe, or a precondition of democracy; it is or should be democracy itself - over time. On this basis, Rubenfeld offers a new understanding of constitutional interpretation and of the fundamental right of privacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12032769.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""But this imperative, Rubenfeld argues, rests on a profoundly inadequate, deforming picture of the relationship between freedom and time. Instead, Rubenfeld suggests, human freedom - human being itself - necessarily extends into both past and future; self-government consists of giving our lives meaning and purpose over time. From this conception of self-government, Rubenfeld derives a new theory of constitutional law's place in democracy. Democracy, he writes, is not a matter of governance by the present "will of the people"; it is a matter of a nation's laying down and living up to enduring political and legal commitments. Constitutionalism is not counter to democracy, as many believe, or a precondition of democracy; it is or should be democracy itself - over time.".
- catalog description ""Should we try to "live in the present"? Such is the imperative of modernity Jed Rubenfeld writes in this important and original work of political theory. Since Jefferson proclaimed that "the earth belongs to the living"--Since Freud announced that mental health requires people to "get free of their past" - since Nietzsche declared that the happy man is the man who "leaps" into "the moment" - modernity has directed its inhabitants to live in the present, as if there alone could they find happiness, authenticity, and above all freedom."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Living in the Present -- The Moment and the Millennium -- The Age of the New -- Constitutional Self-Government on the Model of Speech -- The Antinomies of Speech-Modeled Self-Government -- Being Over Time -- Commitment -- Reason Over Time -- Being Over Time -- Popularity -- Constitutionalism as Democracy -- Constitutionalism as Democracy -- Reading the Constitution as Written: Paradigm Case Interpretation -- Sex Discrimination and Race Preferences -- The Right of Privacy.".
- catalog description "On this basis, Rubenfeld offers a new understanding of constitutional interpretation and of the fundamental right of privacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "266 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300080484 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Constitutional history United States.".
- catalog subject "Democracy.".
- catalog subject "JC585 .R82 2001".
- catalog subject "Liberty.".
- catalog subject "Time.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Living in the Present -- The Moment and the Millennium -- The Age of the New -- Constitutional Self-Government on the Model of Speech -- The Antinomies of Speech-Modeled Self-Government -- Being Over Time -- Commitment -- Reason Over Time -- Being Over Time -- Popularity -- Constitutionalism as Democracy -- Constitutionalism as Democracy -- Reading the Constitution as Written: Paradigm Case Interpretation -- Sex Discrimination and Race Preferences -- The Right of Privacy.".
- catalog title "Freedom and time : a theory of constitutional self-government / Jed Rubenfeld.".
- catalog type "text".