Overview
Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated and signed between states and their prospective citizens. The explicit social contract, or a constitution, sets the terms under which a state may use coercion against its citizens and the conditions under which the contract may be annulled, revised, rescinded, or otherwise exited from. Panarchy does not advocate any particular model of the state or social justice, but intends to encourage political variety, innovation, experimentation, and choice. With its emphasis on explicit social contracts, Panarchy offers an interesting variation on traditional social contract theories. Today, Panarchist political thought is particularly relevant and interesting in the context of globalization, increased international migration, the weakening of national sovereignty, the rise of the internet ""cloud"" as a non-territorial locus of political and protopolitical social networks that are not geographic, the invention of cryptocurrencies that may replace national currencies, and the rise of urban centers where people of many different political identities live and work together. This is the first volume to bring together key philosophically and politically interesting yet often overlooked Panarchist texts. From the first published translation of de Puydt seminal 1860 article to contemporary Silicon Valley political theory, the volume includes Panarchist texts from different eras, cultures and geographical regions. The amassed wealth of theoretical insight enables readers to compare different texts in this tradition of political thought and distinguish different streams and varieties within this political tradition, in comparison with Cosmopolitanism, Contractarianism, and Anarchism.
Full Product Details
Author: Aviezer Tucker (Harvard University, USA) ,
Gian Piero de Bellis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.521kg
ISBN: 9781138884847
ISBN 10: 1138884847
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 11 December 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Tucker and de Bellis have assembled an important collection of 19th, 20th, and 21st century authors with an interesting and often overlooked perspective on the nature of political authority, which will be challenging to anarchists and social-contract theorists alike. -Aeon J. Skoble, author of Deleting the State: An Argument about Government
Author Information
Aviezer Tucker is a political philosopher and theorists. He is an associate of the Davis Center at Harvard. Gian Piero de Bellis manages the World Wide Wisdom Research and Documentation Centre in Saint-Imier (Swiss Jura) focused on Panarchy and related themes.
