Overview
- Is inspired by the work of Thomas Kuhn at the advent of the post-behavioralist revolt to the behavioral movement
- Adopts the paradigmatic approach to explain the growth and development of formal-legalism
- Examines the fundamental presuppositions of practitioners of the formal-legal paradigm through the lens of “insurgent paradigms”
- Offers an alternative paradigm, based on the presuppositions of historical materialism
- Emphasizes the epistemology of the state as it bears on the subject of secession and implications bearing on contemporary revolutionary and political movements
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Narrow adherence to textual sources and the literal approach, have led formal-legalists to miss, willfully ignore, or endorse the paradigm's strategic association with state power, evolving since the dawn of the Enlightenment. Formal-legalism has lent itself amenable to the interests of the state and to the variable construction of the meaning of the law devoid of original spirit and universality but conforming with the specific interests of the state or, for that matter, the prevailing American empire, both spatially and temporally. Accounting for this anomaly, the historical materialist perspective is considered, with appropriate historical and contemporary illustrations, as a relevant explanatory alternative to the now-obsolescent formal-legalist paradigm. With the assumption that, indeed, economic and material considerations such as those demanded by the dominant class elements within the state underlie the rationale for the state, formal-legalism has evolved from one that initially provided a presumed objective view of society to one that has subjectively become an essential part of the cultural suprastructure that allows these elements to command the state as a principal tool for labor- and value-extraction during what is popularly known as contemporary neoliberal globalization.
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Book Title: Secession in the Formal-Legalist Paradigm
Book Subtitle: Implications for Contemporary Revolutionary and Popular Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization
Authors: Kenneth E. Bauzon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7501-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7500-6Published: 29 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7501-3Published: 28 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 137
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Postcolonial Philosophy, Political Sociology, Development and Post-Colonialism