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).

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 Collegeló2