Undoing Ties Political Philosophy at the Waning of the State [Hardcover]

Undoing Tiesclaims 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-?-visthe state.

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

Andrea Salvatoreis 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 ofThe Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt(Routledge 2013, with M. Croce).

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 scenlØ