Enlightenment, Myth and the Total Constitution
The revolutionary promise of European Enlightenment – The shadow side of enlightened thought – The modern idea of a constitution – The decline of classical constitutionalism – The rise of the total constitution – Controversy over the total constitution – The perspective of cosmopolitan constitutionalism – The total constitution’s relationship to the total state.
Authors
- Martin Loughlin
Institutions
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Constitutional Law Review
- Published
- 2026-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019626101114
- Primary Topic
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00