Prefigurative politics and the law (LAW-DS-PREPOL-24)
LAW-DS-PREPOL-24
| Department |
LAW |
| Course category |
LAW Intensive Seminar - 3 credits |
| Course type |
Seminar |
| Academic year |
2024-2025 |
| Term |
2ND TERM |
| Credits |
3 (EUI Law credits) |
| Professors |
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| Contact |
Law Department administration,
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| Course materials |
| Sessions |
21/01/2025 10:00-16:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati
22/01/2025 10:00-16:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati
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Description
Prefigurative politics are rooted in revolutionary thought, in particular anarchist thought. The idea is to organise the revolutionary movement in the image of the society it wants to establish. Prefiguration is closely related to the precept of congruence of means and ends. For example, if we want our post-evolutionary society to be non-violent then our revolution must be non-violent too.
This seminar explores the implications of prefigurative politics for law. Can law be prefigurative? How does the idea of prefiguration relate to the notion of nonreformist reform which is currently popular in Law & Political Economy (LPE)? Does prefigurative politics risk ending up being quietist or privatising politics if we establish prefigurative communities and lifestyles? And what does prefiguration mean in the shadow of a still existing framework of (constitutional) law, where the state, private property, the police and prisons, and capital markets continue to be constituted and shaped by law?
No specific prior knowledge is required for this seminar. Researchers from other EUI departments are more than welcome.
First, Second & Third Term: registration from 26 to 30 September 2024
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