The Treatment of Legitimacy in Historical Fiction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. La raison d’être de la soumission au pouvoir 8
5. Légitimité et pouvoir 15
6. Legitimacy and the Problems of Governance 20
7. Recent Trends in American Legal Theory 29
8. From Legitimism to Legitimacy 36
9. L’obligation politique: Hobbes et Kelsen. Une lecture croisée 44
10. Enlightenment and Legitimacy 60
11. Legitimacy: A Utilitarian View 67
12. The Treatment of Legitimacy in Historical Fiction 79
13. Divine Descent and Sovereign Rule: A Case of Legitimacy? 87
14. Power, Legitimacy and Truth: Reflections on the Impossibility to Legitimise Legitimations of Political Order 96
15. Note de l’Editeur 105