Abstract
The article locates the aesthetics of law within modern legal knowledge, moving from the analysis of Kelsen’s and Schmitt’s theories. Schmitt’s reading of Hobbes becomes the starting point in which political theology can be understood as an iconic legal theology, since the image of Leviathan. Legendre expands the reconstruction of the legal aesthetic model to the entire second millennium, moving from the appropriation of the imperial role of the Roman Pontiff. The article reads the frontispiece of Vico’s Scienza Nuova as a possible alternative to the Hobbesian model and as the foundation of contemporary visual legal studies.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 477-508 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | International Journal for the Semiotics of Law |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
Keywords
- Acclamation
- Anthropology
- Dogma
- Image
- Third
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