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-a-vis the state.

Author Biography

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).