TY - JOUR
T1 - Aesthetics of Law as ‘Iconic Legal Theology’: Legendre,
Schmitt and Vico
AU - HERITIER, PAOLO
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://iris.uniupo.it/handle/11579/155162
U2 - 10.1007/s11196-022-09940-3
DO - 10.1007/s11196-022-09940-3
M3 - Article
SN - 1572-8722
VL - 36
SP - 477
EP - 508
JO - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW
JF - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW
ER -