This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in constitutional and European law theory and philosophy as much as interdisciplinary and socio-legal studies of transnational law and society.

Ji¿í P¿ibá¿ is Professor of Law, Cardiff University, UK. He graduated from Charles University in Prague (1989) where he was appointed professor of legal theory, philosophy and sociology in 2002. He was also visiting professor or scholar at European University Institute in Florence, New York University (Prague Office), University of California in Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Pretoria, The Flemish Academy in Brussels and University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Part I: Constitutional Imaginaries and Transvaluation of Values

Chapter 1: Constitutional Imaginaries: on potentia, potestas and auctoritas

Chapter 2: Transcendental Apparatus of Constitutional Values

Part II: Out of the Topos-Ethnos-Nomos Unity

Chapter 3: Out of Topos: The Nation State Imaginary in Post-National Society

Chapter 4: Out of Ethnos: Imagined Nations and Post-National Rights Culture

Chapter 5: Out of Nomos: The Circularity of Moral Universalism and Legal Particularism

Part III: European Constitutional Imaginaries

Chapter 6: The Imaginary of Legal Pluralism

Chapter 7: The Imaginary of Administrative Calculemus

Chapter 8: The Imaginary of Prosperous Imperium

Chapter 9: The Imaginary of Mobilised Communitas