The Critique of the State
Jens Bartelson
Cambridge University Press, 2001
Rs 1,272

What kind of political order would there be in the absence of the state? Bartelson argues that we are currently unable to imagine what might lurk 'beyond', because our basic concepts of political order are conditioned by our experience of statehood. In this study, he investigates the concepts of the state historically as well as philosophically, considering a range of thinkers and theories.