Law as phármakon
Violence, sovereignty, and life in the thought of Eligio Resta
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Eligio Resta, violence, phármakon, sovereignty, fraternal law, living lawAbstract
The present text reconstructs the conceptual architecture of the legal thought of Eligio Resta on the basis of a central thesis: modern law does not oppose violence, but rather incorporates it in the form of its regulation. This incorporation assumes the figure of the phármakon (remedy and poison, neutralization and reproduction). From L’ambiguo diritto to Diritto vivente, Resta develops a critique of sovereignty and of the immunitary paradigm of modern law, showing how legality communicates the very violence it seeks to interrupt. Faced with this constitutive ambivalence, Resta’s project shifts toward the search for a non-sacrificial difference, formulated through the categories of fraternal law and living law.
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