Preface Part I. Society and Law: 1. The will to know and the will to power: theory and moral responsibility 2. The phenomenon of law 3. Globalization from above: actualizing the ideal through law 4. The nation as mind politic: the making of the public mind 5. New enlightenment: the public mind of all-humanity Part II. European Society and its Law: 6. European governance and the re-branding of democracy 7. The crisis of European constitutionalism: reflections on a half-revolution 8. The concept of European Union: imagining the unimagined 9. The conversation that we are: the seven lamps of European unity Part III. International Society and its Law: 10. The concept of international law 11. International law and the idea of history 12. Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism 13. International law and the international Hofmafia: towards a sociology of diplomacy 14. International law and international revolution: re-conceiving the world Index.