1st Edition

Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance

By Francescomaria Tedesco Copyright 2019
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

When talking about his film Salò , Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary. And yet, upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose existence depends on its victims’ recognition. Like a prayer from God, the command implores to be loved, also by... Read more

Preface



1. "Tell the bastards nothing!". The ideology of the scaffold



2. Fault lines



3. That sovereign, a true Machiavellian



4. Machiavelli and Shakespeare



5. Sovereign excess. Death penalty and recognition



6. Hinneni



7. Tu es/Tuer



8. I will not consent to die



9. Conclusion

Biography

Francescomaria Tedesco is assistant professor at the University of Camerino (Italy), where he teaches Political Philosophy.