{"product_id":"why-the-law-matters-to-you-citizenship-agency-and-public-identity-von-christoph-hanisch","title":"Why the Law Matters to You","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003eThis book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person’s practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783110323955\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCitizenship, Agency, and Public Identity\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783110323955","offer_id":51784259334,"sku":"9783110323955","price":144.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3ddc94f6-acab-48c9-9090-74bf809c097c.jpg?v=1778042662","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/why-the-law-matters-to-you-citizenship-agency-and-public-identity-von-christoph-hanisch","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}