Living Law: Politics and Legality Beyond the State

This book offers a radical new understanding of law, beyond the confines of its formalization by the state.

The book takes off from the late work of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, for whom law and its institutions came to be liberated from an ideological perspective that had treated them as sterile instruments for the reproduction of domination. Engaging its continental history, it addresses the concept of law, not merely as a ‘command’, but as the result of a much more complex legal op...