Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The spirit of criticism -- Analysing the concept of the state -- Analysing political concepts -- Analysing the concept of the state beyond Sattelzeit -- 2 Unpacking the living museum -- The state and its doubles -- The state and the quest for disciplinary identity -- The quest for autonomy and reflexive politics -- The quest for authority and legislative science -- 3 Throwing the state out -- Reconstructing monism -- Making the case against monism -- The impurity of plurality -- 4 Recycling the state -- Reconstructing pluralism -- Making the case against pluralism -- The relativity of autonomy -- 5 Dissolving the state -- Reconstructing modernity -- Denaturalizing the state -- Temporalizing the state -- Politics beyond the state -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.