Tradition and Revolution: Law in action

Can tradition, the most intensely and profoundly epistemological sense of tradition, tend towards the configuration of revolutionary approaches? Can the sense of tradition guide revolutionary paths? Only deeper knowledge of the tradition, can lead the construction of new categories This book shows that true ‘revolutionary’ achievements in contemporary civil society must start from an analysis of traditional categories. In particular, the proposition of new models for the functioning of democracy, through participatory institutions, must pass through a detailed analysis of the democracy of representation and the crisis of parliaments. The proposition of the new and revolutionary category of the commons must have as its starting point the crisis of public property, which is increasingly at the service of technocratic and financial processes. This presupposes a commitment of citizenship, to make law live beyond itself, and to realise the phenomenon that has been called civic theology through law in action.