Sarita Zaffini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarita Zaffini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarita |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaffini |
| SIGNATURE | ZAFFINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
What is Real Unity? The Christology Behind Hobbes's Commonwealth
Hobbes's famous expression 'real unity' from the incorporation passage of Leviathan has puzzled scholars for many reasons, not least because he strongly preferred to describe political phenomena as 'artificial' rather than 'real'. This article examines the historical usage of 'real unity' in England during the seventeenth century and finds that the expression unequivocally refers to Jesus Christ's divine representation of his church 'body'. Clari…
The Two Bodies of Hobbes and Rousseau
Hobbes and Rousseau relied heavily upon the time-worn metaphor of the body politic to describe and explain their respective political visions. But while Rousseau’s use of the metaphor is largely accepted by scholars as a congruous and illuminating extension of his political thought, Hobbes’s use of it is regarded as an instance of mere rhetoric, which is philosophically incompatible with his broader mechanistic voluntarism. This article questions…
Real Unity and Representation in Hobbes, Schmitt, and Barth
Recent Hobbes scholarship argues that legal rationalism is the key to understanding his concept of representation; the commonwealth entails the sum total of the individual wills who compact to create it. But as jurist Carl Schmitt recognized, certain aspects of Hobbes’s famous Leviathan narrative transcend this rationality. He points out that the commonwealth, according to Hobbes, constitutes a “real unity” of the multitude in one Sovereign head …
The Two Bodies of Hobbes and Rousseau
Hobbes and Rousseau relied heavily upon the time-worn metaphor of the body politic to describe and explain their respective political visions. But while Rousseau’s use of the metaphor is largely accepted by scholars as a congruous and illuminating extension of his political thought, Hobbes’s use of it is regarded as an instance of mere rhetoric, which is philosophically incompatible with his broader mechanistic voluntarism. This article questions…
Real Unity and Representation in Hobbes, Schmitt, and Barth
Recent Hobbes scholarship argues that legal rationalism is the key to understanding his concept of representation; the commonwealth entails the sum total of the individual wills who compact to create it. But as jurist Carl Schmitt recognized, certain aspects of Hobbes’s famous Leviathan narrative transcend this rationality. He points out that the commonwealth, according to Hobbes, constitutes a “real unity” of the multitude in one Sovereign head …
Real Unity and Representation in Hobbes, Schmitt, and Barth
Recent Hobbes scholarship argues that legal rationalism is the key to understanding his concept of representation; the commonwealth entails the sum total of the individual wills who compact to create it. But as jurist Carl Schmitt recognized, certain aspects of Hobbes’s famous Leviathan narrative transcend this rationality. He points out that the commonwealth, according to Hobbes, constitutes a “real unity” of the multitude in one Sovereign head …
The Two Bodies of Hobbes and Rousseau
Hobbes and Rousseau relied heavily upon the time-worn metaphor of the body politic to describe and explain their respective political visions. But while Rousseau’s use of the metaphor is largely accepted by scholars as a congruous and illuminating extension of his political thought, Hobbes’s use of it is regarded as an instance of mere rhetoric, which is philosophically incompatible with his broader mechanistic voluntarism. This article questions…
The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
What is Real Unity? The Christology Behind Hobbes's Commonwealth
Hobbes's famous expression 'real unity' from the incorporation passage of Leviathan has puzzled scholars for many reasons, not least because he strongly preferred to describe political phenomena as 'artificial' rather than 'real'. This article examines the historical usage of 'real unity' in England during the seventeenth century and finds that the expression unequivocally refers to Jesus Christ's divine representation of his church 'body'. Clari…
Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Commonwealth (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works)