Undoing Ties: Political Philosophy at the Waning of the State

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 ofSocial 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).

• Preface to the English editionForeword1. AFTER THE STATE1.1 Theories of government 1.1.1 New Forms of liberalism 1.1.2. Metamorphoses of government 1.1.3. The legacy of the constitution1.2. Justice and injustices 1.2.1. New paradigms of justice 1.2.2. Sovereignty in transition 2. ABOVE THE STATE2.1. Theories of globalization 2.1.1. The contraposition between national and global 2.1.2. The interpenetration between national and global2.2. 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 STATE3.1. The twilight of the only legislator 3.1.1. Multicultural politics 3.1.2. The plurality of orders3.2. The law, the market, and the demise of politics3.2.1. Juridification or de-politicization? 3.2.2. Cultural identities vis-à-vis the market References

Undoing Ties by is an impressive, thorough study of an enormously profound, contemporary development that is having, and will continue to have, disruptive and politically important consequences for both politics and political philosophy.