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The Plurality of Sources of Law *
Author(s) -
RICCEUR PAUL
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.1994.tb00181.x
Subject(s) - principle of legality , multitude , sovereignty , pluralism (philosophy) , politics , dimension (graph theory) , law , political science , state (computer science) , law and economics , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
. In this paper, the Author contends with the problem of an infra‐state differentiation of sources of law. He examines two accounts of a juridical pluralism, that of Walzer (1983) and that of Boltanski and ThCvenot (1991). Both these works reveal a similar inability to account for the political dimension. The Author identifies this inability as the result of the paradox of the political. He goes on to discuss this paradox in terms of a need to reconcile indivisible popular sovereignty with the proliferation of a multitude of sources of legality.