ABSTRACT
Theorizing such fascinating aggregates called ‘unions’ contributes to the debate on what it takes for autonomous units or ‘politeiai’, each with a sense of unity of its own, to combine into a larger ‘politeia’. Theorizing is telling of the culture and evolution of collective symbiosis among diverse parts and, in addition to valuable theory insights, has deepened our understanding of how such aggregates work or fail from working. This chapter revisits the idea of a larger but structured plurality taken both as ‘politeia’ and as ‘politeiai’ along the lines of the European Union as a late-modern ‘syspondia’.
