RECALLING THE PLURALIST CONSTITUTION

NEW BOOK FINALLY READY!

Hey everyone, hope you’re all well.

I’m happy to report that the new book, Recalling the Pluralist Constitution, is finally ready and available on Amazon.

It pulls together into a coherent (I hope) narrative the many posts and series during 2024 exploring multiple dimensions of what I came to call the pluralist constitution. Below I’ll add the blurb I’ve used on the back cover and the Amazon book page.

Long time readers will be familiar, of course, with the bulk of the material. Though I have added new material, mostly to extend context and improve transitions. Still some of you might appreciate having it all brought together in a more cohesive narrative than is possible on a blog. But likewise, if you wanted to alert anyone you know to these ideas and arguments, it provides a far more user friendly access to the material than urging them to try and work their way through the archive of this Substack. And who knows, some of you might choose to buy it just to offer a little financial support to your humble Substacker.

To start, as usual, I’ve publishing it in paperback, with the e-book probably six or so months to come. The paperback price will be $25.97 USD, but for the next month (or so) its on offer for $19.97. And I’m only advertising that discount here – so effectively a discount to my readers – and anyone else they choose to tell about it.

I think it offers a valuable exegesis upon my major work, A Plea for Time in the Phenotype Wars. Combined with the anticipated book, The Spatial Revolution, the details of which are currently being worked out on this Substack, these books offer a major and original analysis of the motive forces of history and their implications. If I might be so immodest as to say.

As ever, thank you to everyone who has been supportive of this project, with your reading, comments, and subscriptions. Your company along this journey has been inestimably appreciated.

The blurb is below. Meanwhile, watch out for the next installment in our exploration of the spatial revolution, coming next week. And if you don’t want to miss that, and haven’t yet, please…

And if you know of anyone who’d appreciate knowing about this Substack, or the new book, please…

The blurb to Recalling the Pluralist Constitution:

Building upon his previous book, A Plea for Time in the Phenotype Wars, the author fleshes out here one side of that dialectic between space and time biased phenotypes in his gesture toward recalling the pluralist constitution. This recalling takes place through an unpacking of the tradition of legal pluralism, with particular emphasis upon customary law; the remarkable role of the German “hometown” tradition of the Holy Roman Empire period; and a long historical dissection of the guild tradition, examining its trials and tribulations, its multiple contributions and applications, across more than a millennium of the history of the Western world. He also considers the unexpected appearance of the pluralist constitution within the history of revolutionary modernism, suggesting an inexhaustible resource of resilient temporalism; and ties it all together with the persisting promise of heterarchical federalism. This is another richly interdisciplinary exploration of the human condition and its forgotten but still recoupable pluralist option.