Monateri on Political Sublime and the Exotic Birth of European Sovereignty.

Political Sublime. 

Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity

The aim of this paper, held at the meeting of the Harvard International Group for Law and Politics (IGLP), is to show the demonological origin of modernity, which entails a "sublime" aspect of the political exceeding the words by which we try to capture its nature.
My paper proceeds using the lexicon of the Italian Theory (Agamben and Esposito) to analyse the parallel between King James I and Jean Bodin. Both authors developed the modern conceptions of political sovereignty and both were engaged in witch-trials, writing extensive treatises on the matter. This parallel locates the question of heterodoxy/orthodoxy in the very threshold of modernity.
My tentative conclusion is the possibility of a link between the politicization of the magic world and the genealogy of modernity, reversing, in a way, the standard approach of political theology in favour of a demonological archeology of modern European concepts of law and politics.

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Séminaire: PG Monateri - Délit poltique de sorcellerie Angleterre XVI-XVII siècles - Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Le délit politique »,  nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir

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Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Professeur de droit privé comparé à l'Université de Turin

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Le délit politique de sorcellerie en Angleterre

sous Elisabeth 1ère et Jacques 1er

  

salle 7

105 bd Raspail

Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

15h à 17h

CENJ "Yan Thomas" - 105 Boulevard Raspail - 75006 PARIS - 01.53.63.51.68

Four Lives of Liberal Scholars (Vite di Giuristi Liberali)

In a 4 articles set P.G.Monateri connects the lives and thoughts of four among the major law and liberal Italian thinkers : Pasquale Mancini, Emanuele Gianturco, Guido Astuti and Gino Gorla.

All the articles, to be inserted in the forthcoming Dizionario del liberalismo, are downloadable at academia.edu clicking HERE

Pasquale Mancini is the well-known founder of Italian International Law, a deep thinker of the concept of nation, who became the private educator of King Umberto I, and ended his rich political career within the context of the rising Italian imperialism in Eritrea.

Emanuele Gianturco has been one of the most intriguing and controversial figures of liberalism and legal theory ranging his activities from the clash between classical and modern legal paradigms, from participation to many cabinets, to the nationalization of railroads.

Guido Astuti, a prominent legal historian, became member of the Constitutional Assembly, and led the liberal party during the crucial decisions which framed the Italian political landscape in the second after-war.

Gino Gorla is deemed to be the founding father of modern Italian comparative law as an academic discipline. He based his reflections on a study of Tocqueville which is still of great and innovative impact, especially opposing an "aristocratic" versus "democratic" notion of individual rights and liberalism.