Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The social species -- Social pathology -- Social idealism -- Practical theory -- Law -- The other human future -- Method -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I Society and law -- 1 The will to know an the will to power -- Theory and Istopia -- Theory and society -- Theory and the university -- Theory and the philosophers -- Theory and imagination -- Theory and pathology -- Theory and Eutopia -- 2 The phenomenon of law -- I. Making sense of the law. Lawyers and legal philosophy -- II. The emerging universal legal system. The law of all laws -- III. Deliver us from social evil. International criminal law and moral order -- I. Making sense of the law. Lawyers and legal philosophy -- Law's reality -- Lawyers' philosophies -- II. The emerging universal legal system. The law of all laws -- III. Deliver us from social evil. International criminal law and moral order -- 3 Globalisation from above -- Becoming -- Minds -- Realities -- Constitutions -- The ideal -- The legal -- The real -- Globalisation from below -- Globalisation from bove -- 4 The nation as mind politic -- Humanism and naturalism -- Nation and identity -- Nation and state -- Nation and pathology -- 5 New Enlightenment -- I. The challenge -- The mind's freedom -- Law's power -- Millennial potentiality -- Surpassing the past -- The health of nations - human inhumanity -- The health of nations - de-humanising humanity -- The health of nations - re-humanising humanity -- II. A response -- Self-resisting mind -- Self-knowing mind -- The misconceiving of democracy -- Law and freedom -- The Eunomian project -- The Eutopian project -- PART II European society and its law -- 6 European governance and the re-branding of democracy -- The governance of virtue -- Who governs the governors? -- The lure of anti-politics.

The government of Europe -- New Europe -- 7 The crisis of European constitutionalism -- Constitutional psychology: France, Great Britain -- Constitutional psychology: Germany -- Half-revolution -- The presence of the past -- Ideas and illusions -- Making the future -- 8 The concept of European Union -- The self and the other - the dilemma of identity -- The one and the many - the dilemma of power -- Unity of nature, plurality of value - the dilemma of the will -- Justice and social justice - the dilemma of order -- New citizens, old laws - the dilemma of becoming -- Making the economic constitution -- The precession effect -- The macro-micro fault-line -- European Union as European society -- 9 The conversation that we are -- Public mind -- The conversation -- The sacred -- The ideal -- The imaginary -- The real -- The social -- The suffering -- The future -- PART III International society and its law -- 10 The concept of international law -- The social function of law -- Law and social psychology -- Law and justice -- Law and the common interest -- The international legal system -- The making of international law: (1) customary international law -- The making of international law: (2) treaty-law -- The future of the international legal system -- The new paradigm -- 11 International law and the idea of history -- Law's histories -- The third memory -- The third memory and international law -- The lure of historicism -- The making of the past -- From human history to human law -- Human memory -- 12 Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism -- The challenge of intergovernmental public power -- Constitutionalism as social theory -- International societies and social theory -- The presence of the past -- The genealogy of constitutionalism -- The genetics of constitutionalism -- (1) Divine order -- (2) The sovereignty of law.

(3) Cosmic order -- (4) Natural social order -- The naturally artificial 69 -- Three mythologies and a heresy -- The generic principles of constitutionalism -- The constitutionalising of intergovernmental organisations: captor captus 86 -- 13 International law an the international Hofmafia -- Representative aristocracy -- The Great Game -- Public Law -- The New Law of Nations -- The new aristocracy -- 14 International law and international revolution -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.