Transnational-Resilient Democracy. On the Conditions for Party Ban Proceedings in Interlegal Systems

Contribution

Nils Kohlmeier & Andreas Gutmann

2024

On 13.11.2024, a group of 113 members of the German Bundestag tabled a motion to initiate proceedings to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The debate to date has focused on the requirements and prospects of success of a (partial) ban of the party from a constitutional perspective (in particular here and here). The national perspective threatens to distort the view of transnational interlegalities and does not do justice to the state of European integration.

The full contribution to the Verfassungsblog can be found here.

Verfassungsblog: On Constitutional Matters. Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung.

DOI: 10.59704/a7e38ff8456f72b2

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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf

interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka