Hobbes and Corneille on Political Representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3969722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Herzog (0000-0002-4645-1283, University of Haifa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 379-389 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770902999484 |
| OpenAlex | W2055938542 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this essay, I compare the meaning of political representation in Hobbes’ Leviathan and Corneille's Cinna. For both authors, a monarch is a “representer” and representation is a necessary condition of effective sovereignty. However, the term “representation” means something entirely different in Hobbes and in Corneille. For the former, it means acting and speaking in the name of a multitude and in its absence; for the latter, it means acting and speaking in the presence of a political public, with the intention to impress this audience. I would like to argue that our late modern (or postmodern) conception of sovereignty can be seen as being (unconsciously) based on the conjunction of Hobbes’ and Corneille's different notions of representation
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Multitude · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |