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Diritto e violenza

Un'analisi giusletteraria
  • Maria Pina Fersini,

With the rise of modernity, law faces an irreducible contradiction. It must stem the State’s available strength, while at the same time use this strength to make its decisions binding. The author, starting from this paradox, analyses the legal, philosophical and literary discourses of modernity to find the right tools to properly differentiate law and “vis”, overcoming two philosophical and juridical traditions: the one depicting law as a Leviathan, and the one wanting to make it immune to all forms of violence. In particular, through an unedited reading of Kafka and Melville’s narratives, she demonstrates how the modern legal systems, rather than just being instruments of control, are dreams and fantasies of non-violence.

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Maria Pina Fersini is Honorary Professor of Philosophy of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Málaga. Her interests include law and literature, social memory and structural injustice.
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Book Title

Diritto e violenza

Book Subtitle

Un'analisi giusletteraria

Authors

Maria Pina Fersini

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

200

Publication Year

2018

Copyright Information

© 2018 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-6453-829-7

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978-88-6453-828-0

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978-88-6453-829-7

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978-88-9273-074-8

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Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»

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2705-0289

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2705-0297

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