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Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’ (2017)
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Lindsay, A. (2017). Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(10), https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453717701990

Contemporary theorists of constituent power recognise a tension in which the omnipotent novelty of constituent power is necessarily policed by constituted power. Beginning with Arendt’s claim that the categories of constitutional stability and politi... Read More about Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’.