Undoing Ties: Political Philosophy at the Waning of the State

by Mariano Croce, Andrea Salvatore

Overview

Undoing Ties claims to offer an answer to the question of what happens when the ties between traditional political institutions and citizens are being undone. The basic aim of the book is to offer an introductory and accessible overview of those paradigms and theories that are specifically concerned with the irreducible plurality of life forms and seek to understand how this challenge should be faced. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach to foreground how scholars in different areas (such as political philosophy, jurisprudence, sociology and anthropology) deal with one of the key characterizing elements of today's political scenario, that is to say, the reviviscence of sub-state and supra-state groups as crucial political actors vis-à-vis the state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628922059
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	379 KB

About the Author

Mariano Croce is FWO Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Law and CosmopolitanValues, University of Antwerp. He has published Self-sufficiency of Law: A Critical-institutional Theory of
Social Order (Springer, 2012) and The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (Routledge, 2013, with A. Salvatore).

Andrea Salvatore is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Political Philosophy at Sapienza – University of Rome. His research interests lie in the areas of political philosophy and legal theory. He is the co-author of The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (Routledge 2013, with M. Croce).

Table of Contents

Preface to the English edition

Foreword

1. AFTER THE STATE
1.1 Theories of government
1.1.1 New Forms of liberalism
1.1.2. Metamorphoses of government
1.1.3. The legacy of the constitution
1.2. Justice and injustices
1.2.1. New paradigms of justice
1.2.2. Sovereignty in transition

2. ABOVE THE STATE
2.1. Theories of globalization
2.1.1. The contraposition between national and global
2.1.2. The interpenetration between national and global
2.2. Order and democracy in the global scenario
2.2.1. Cosmopolitan ideals and global democracy
2.2.2. The law of subalterns
2.2.3. Back to the state?

3. WITHOUT THE STATE
3.1. The twilight of the only legislator
3.1.1. Multicultural politics
3.1.2. The plurality of orders
3.2. The law, the market, and the demise of politics
3.2.1. Juridification or de-politicization?
3.2.2. Cultural identities vis-à-vis the market

References

Editorial Reviews

"The territorial state has been the most successful political innovation of the modern age up to the point to cover all emerged surface of the planet. But it is increasingly unable to represent the political needs of the XXI Century. In this fascinating reconstruction, Croce and Salvatore show with passion and competence how markets and civil society, individuals and ethnic groups are more and more discontent with what the state provides. And, more importantly, they indicate what alternative forms of political organization are emerging." --Daniele Archibugi, Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

"This book attempts to answer a pivotal question: what happens to political theory now that the ties between state and citizens are being undone? The answer, at least at first impression, is offered with remarkable modesty: an approachable and contained overview of political theory with regards to the conditions of the transition. Yet, any apparent modesty is quickly belied, first, by the ambitious interdisciplinarity of the venture, with learned insights from jurisprudence, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, and second, by the astonishing depth of original analysis contained here while never amounting to anything short of approachable. So if you thought you knew your Rawls, Sen, Beck, read this book and think again. The feat of Undoing Ties is to provide both an original overview and an elaborate new perspective on citizenship beyond the state. This is not an ordinary book of political theory but an erudite disquisition on the conditions of transition, a subtle questioning of such important issues as structural violence, cultural and legal pluralism, supranational justice, and global poverty, and an imaginative foray into what might happen next." --Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & Theory, University of Westminster, UK

From the Publisher

This book attempts to answer a pivotal question: what happens to political theory now that the ties between state and citizens are being undone? The answer, at least at first impression, is offered with remarkable modesty: an approachable and contained overview of political theory with regards to the conditions of the transition. Yet, any apparent modesty is quickly belied, first, by the ambitious interdisciplinarity of the venture, with learned insights from jurisprudence, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, and second, by the astonishing depth of original analysis contained here while never amounting to anything short of approachable. So if you thought you knew your Rawls, Sen, Beck, read this book and think again. The feat of Undoing Ties is to provide both an original overview and an elaborate new perspective on citizenship beyond the state. This is not an ordinary book of political theory but an erudite disquisition on the conditions of transition, a subtle questioning of such important issues as structural violence, cultural and legal pluralism, supranational justice, and global poverty, and an imaginative foray into what might happen next.

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

The territorial state has been the most successful political innovation of the modern age up to the point to cover all emerged surface of the planet. But it is increasingly unable to represent the political needs of the XXI Century. In this fascinating reconstruction, Croce and Salvatore show with passion and competence how markets and civil society, individuals and ethnic groups are more and more discontent with what the state provides. And, more importantly, they indicate what alternative forms of political organization are emerging.

Daniele Archibugi