DOI: 10.1017/s1574019626101114 ISSN: 1574-0196

Enlightenment, Myth and the Total Constitution

Martin Loughlin

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.