Transformations of Kinship and the Acceleration of History Thesis
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Lior Barshack
Departing from Durkheim’s assertion of the primacy of public time, I argue that time is manufactured through the legal organization of society in the form of a corporate body. As a corporation, society enjoys fictive immortality, and it is this legal fiction that allows the flow of historical time. The institution of time, and of the corporate structure in general, is made possible through the political triumph over communal aspirations for timelessness, oneness and death: aspirations for an eternal present, to which I refer as the communal body. The passage from a founding, pre-historical experience of timelessness into historical time is accomplished through the construction of a perpetual corporate body in place of a communal body that lacks a temporal dimension. I will argue that the establishment of historical time and of the corporate organization of society necessitates the normative regulation of sexuality. Thus, the relaxation of the traditional structure of historical time and of sexual morality in contemporary society are closely intertwined.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Introduction
- Constitutionalism as Mindset: Reflections on Kantian Themes About International Law and Globalization
- Aristotle on Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
- In the Blind Spot: The Hybridization of Contracting
- The Shuffle of Things: Law and Knowledge in "Modern Society"
- Democratic Legitimacy and the Scientific Foundation of Modern Law
- The Two-State Solution: Providence and Catastrophe
- "What Are the Gods to Us Now?": Secular Theology and the Modernity of Law
- Transformations of Kinship and the Acceleration of History Thesis
- Animal Laws and the Politics of Life: Slaughterhouse Regulation in Germany, 1870-1917
- The Critical Modernism of Hannah Arendt
- Modern Times: Law, Temporality and Happiness in Hobbes, Locke and Bentham
- Time and Law
