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Philosophica Critica
medzinárodný vedecký filozofický časopis

FABBRIZI, V.: Theory of Sovereignty and the Body Politic in Modern and Contemporary Political Thought

Philosophica Critica, vol. 4, 2018, no. 1, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 3-19
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Publication date: June 15, 2018
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to investigate one of the most interesting and debated issues within the philosophical dis-cussion about politics: the metaphor of the body politic and its relation with the theory of sovereignty in contemporary political theory. After an opening section, which proposes a brief sketch about the origin of the body politic within phi-losophy (especially in Plato’s and Aristotle’s contributions), the article provides a theoretical insight of such a theory, by dealing with three of its definitions: Kantorowicz’s “king’s two bodies”; Hobbes’ Leviathan and Schmitt’s theory of sove-reignty. The article aims at presenting some arguments to de-fine these three perspectives, by examining – in the last sec-tion – how this paradigm has evolved into the more complex and articulated theory of the rule of law in contemporary de-mocratic societies.

Key words: Body Politic – Theory of Sovereignty – Leviathan – Rule of Law – People

​DOI: 10.17846/PC.2019.4.1.3-19
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