The article focuses on one of the most significant conceptual reassessments that are necessary in order to adapt the idea of sovereignty to the demands of an open and democratic society in an ever more interconnected world. Indeed, if sovereigns have to reject their absolutistic claim, this implies that they will have to share power with other national as well as infra- and supranational or international instances. This means that the concept of sovereignty has to be relocated within a pluralistic – or better, post-unitary – legal system. Following this premise, the article analyses the epistemological presuppositions that stay behind the transition from the unitary conception of order to the view that also a multiplicity of orders should not be denounced as a pathology any longer, but accepted as a fact, on the one hand, and as a desirable perspective on the other. The first step of the analysis consists of introducing the fundamental elements of the unitary conception of order in both its variants: the particularistic and the holistic. In the further section, three approaches are sketched which overcome the unitary notion of order: systems theory, post-modernism, and discourse theory. Each of these epistemological approaches lays the ground for a specific notion of post-unitary legal order: the idea of the existence of a multiplicity of self-reliant, albeit not mutually indifferent, legal systems in the first case, legal pluralism in the second, and cosmopolitan constitutionalism in the third.

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处理后统一秩序理论中的多样性

本文重点关注最重要的概念性重新评估之一，这些重新评估是使主权理念适应日益相互联系的世界中开放和民主社会的要求所必需的。事实上，如果主权者不得不拒绝他们的专制主张，这意味着他们将不得不与其他国家以及国内和超国家或国际实例分享权力。这意味着主权的概念必须在多元的——或者更好的，后统一的——法律体系中重新定位。在此前提下，文章分析了从单一的秩序概念转变为“秩序的多样性不应再被谴责为病态，而应被接受为事实”的观点的认识论预设，一方面, 并作为对另一个的理想视角。分析的第一步包括在其变体中引入统一秩序概念的基本要素：特殊的和整体的。在下一节中，概述了克服单一秩序概念的三种方法：系统理论、后现代主义和话语理论。这些认识论方法中的每一种都为后统一法律秩序的特定概念奠定了基础：存在多种自力更生的法律体系（尽管并非互不相让）的想法在第一种情况下，法律多元化在第二种情况下，第三个是世界主义宪政。特殊性和整体性。在下一节中，概述了克服单一秩序概念的三种方法：系统理论、后现代主义和话语理论。这些认识论方法中的每一种都为后统一法律秩序的特定概念奠定了基础：存在多种自力更生的法律体系（尽管并非互不相让）的想法在第一种情况下，法律多元化在第二种情况下，第三个是世界主义宪政。特殊性和整体性。在下一节中，概述了克服单一秩序概念的三种方法：系统理论、后现代主义和话语理论。这些认识论方法中的每一种都为后统一法律秩序的特定概念奠定了基础：存在多种自力更生的法律体系（尽管并非互不相让）的想法在第一种情况下，法律多元化在第二种情况下，第三个是世界主义宪政。