Postmodern constitutional thought marks a shift from truth to meaning.

Evidence

One way to characterize this shift is as a shift from truth to meaning. This is the shift from the modem to the postmodern. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 874

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the modern-to-postmodern shift in constitutional theory in terms of truth versus meaning.
• XREF: connects to: Legitimacy can be derived from constitutional practices rather than from justifications. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 15; A constitutional description’s static feel reflects the observer’s participation in an evolving process. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 482; Postmodern theory’s claims of abandoned meaning serve an ideological role masking its own dominance (+7 more)

Related

• Legitimacy can be derived from constitutional practices rather than from justifications. (similarity 0.82)
• A constitutional description’s static feel reflects the observer’s participation in an evolving process. (similarity 0.82)
• Constitutional law and jurisprudence need have only contingent historical connections. (similarity 0.81)
• Constitutional doctrine develops as replications and mutations of one fundamental structure (similarity 0.79)
• and their presence in our political discourse does not require us to deny them legitimacy or to corrupt our forms of decision according to law. American constitutional law can be a profoundly… (similarity 0.79)
• Constitutional law’s foundational modalities derive legitimacy from use alone, not external validation. (similarity 0.79)
• Classical constitutional puzzles reduce fundamentally to questions of legitimacy and legitimation. (similarity 0.78)
• Constitutional understanding is cultivated through practical exercises rather than passive reading (similarity 0.78)
• A constitutional grammar lets nonjudicial actors reason legally about constitutional questions. (similarity 0.78)
• Legal legitimacy is structural contingency, not shared conviction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Legal meaning derives from practices of legitimation, not truth conditions. #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 386
• Modernity shifts meaning-seeking inward as public life over-institutionalizes #complicates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 273
• Postmodern theory’s claims of abandoned meaning serve an ideological role masking its own dominance #complicates (0.70)
• Pragmatism’s rejection of foundations licenses rhetoric’s role in legal change #expands (0.65) — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 137
• A constitutional description’s static feel reflects the observer’s participation in an evolving process. #expands (0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 482
• Constitutional understanding is cultivated through practical exercises rather than passive reading #expands (0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 28