Sandro Chignola

Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Faculty Member

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I am full professor of political philosophy, a member of the governing council of the doctoral programme in philosophy at Padua University and of the comité de pilotage of the international doctorate school «Europhilosophie» (http://www.europhilosophie.eu/doctorat/). I am also member of the editorial board of some academic journals: «Filosofia politica», «Cahiers du GRM»; «Res Publica. Revista de filosofia política»; «Politica e società»; «Materiali foucaultiani»; «Conceptos Históricos». My research interests and specialization include: the history of political concepts; french contemporary philosophy; critical theory; german and french political theory at the XIXth and XXth century.
Phone: tel. +390498273766 fax +390498274701
Address: Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA
Università di Padova
Piazza Capitaniato, 3
35139 Padova

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Living Law. Politics and Legality beyond the State

Routledge, 2024

This book offers a radical new understanding of law, beyond the con nes of its formalization by t... more This book offers a radical new understanding of law, beyond the con nes 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 with its continental history, it addresses the concept of law, not merely as 'command', but as the result of a much more complex legal operation aimed at dynamically stabilising 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, this book maintains, can 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 formalising 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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