{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-state-philosophy-and-politics-9781538149805","title":"The Future of the State: Philosophy and Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe state has been a dominant political form, and the preferred model of political unity , for at least the last two centuries. However, many today speak of its crisis, which stems from two main factors: the state’s changing role in the globalizing international system and the state’s complex relation to democracy, a key normative concept of contemporary politics. Authoritarian leaders use the state to successfully reaffirm sovereignty, despite international integration; democratic movements abound but often serve only to reinforce the regimes they contest. Is there an alternative? Do we need to reconceive the phenomenon of state, with a view to the future? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the questions that an international group of scholars explores and answers in this groundbreaking book, drawing on the history of political thought, continental philosophy, and contemporary political examples. They engage the dialectical tradition broadly understood, including phenomenological transcendentalism, the political philosophy of French public law, and German twentieth-century political philosophy beyond Weber. The result brings the state into a critical political philosophy, providing a realistic model of what a good democratic state could and should be like. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eState theory is back. This exciting collection of essays from an international group of brilliant young scholars resets the terms of debate over the state, its functions, legitimacy, and subjectivity. Given the contemporary emergence of a paradoxical and contradictory global national democratic welfare deregulationist state, can the Left develop an affirmative account of the state? Or is it stuck in the fantasy of its withering away? The contributors to this volume don't agree on the answers. They demonstrate why these are the questions to be asked now.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jodi Dean, author of Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Future of the State is exactly the book we need at a moment when people are afraid of state apparatuses that register and control all our activities, and when at the same time the pandemic has made us aware of how important a well-functioning state is. It is an essential read for everyone who wants a clear picture of the mess we are in. \u003c\/p\u003e -- Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. The Idea of State.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1. Michael Marder. The Categories of the State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2. Alexander Filippov, The State in the International Legal Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3. Olga Bashkina. Popular Sovereignty, Constituent Power and Representation in the Early 20th-Century French Constitutional Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. Critique of the State and the State of the Critique\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4. Panagiotis Sotiris. State Power and Social Transformation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5. Maria Kochkina, Lindsey’s “Concealed State” and the Left Strategy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6. Ajay Singh Chaudhary. Franz Neumann and the Critical Theory of State for the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. Socialist and Communist State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7. Lorenzo Chiesa. Lenin and the Transitional-Revolutionary State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8. Agon Hamza. Marching of God, or the Žižekian Theory of the State. Contemporary “Young Hegelianism”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9. Christian Sorace. Democratic Corpses and Communist Specters: Between the Liberal Democratic and Post-Socialist State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV Ex Pluribus Unum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10. Artemy Magun, Civitas Paradoxa,or: The Dialectical Theory of State","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041192214871,"sku":"9781538149805","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538149805.jpg?v=1750949291","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-future-of-the-state-philosophy-and-politics-9781538149805","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}