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Sandro Chignola David Broder

Living Law

Politics and Legality Beyond the State

Sandro Chignola,  David Broder

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English
Routledge
19 July 2024
Political science & theory; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Systems of law
Series: Law and Politics
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 operation aimed at dynamically stabilizing the social relations of a community. The book thus sidesteps the usual legal-political focus on those – from Hobbes to Schmitt – who have contributed to the categorical scheme of the modern state, and with it questions of political representation, sovereignty, the rigid distinction between public law and private law, and so on, as it pursues an alternative theoretical trajectory through Ravaisson, Tarde, and Hauriou. Politics, the book maintains, can be no longer be treated simply through the state form. And, relatedly, the law must be seen as a living law: a law that cannot be treated exclusively in formal terms, but must be taken as a grammar capable of articulating a politics of process, relationality, and innovation. Reconceived as such, law can then circumvent the aporias that arise when society is viewed as a private company, and the state seen as the bearer of the only possible means of formalizing its relationships.

At the intersection of law and political theory, this book will speak to scholars and others with interests in both these areas, and especially those concerned with the limits of both conventional and critical approaches to law.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781032463803
ISBN 10:   1032463805
Series:   Law and Politics
Pages:   198
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sandro Chignola is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Padova, Italy, and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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