Aesthetics of Law as ‘Iconic Legal Theology’: Legendre, Schmitt and Vico

Paolo Heritier

doi:10.1007/s11196-022-09940-3

Aesthetics of Law as ‘Iconic Legal Theology’: Legendre, Schmitt and Vico

Paolo Heritier

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza e Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo su rivista › Articolo in rivista › peer review

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.

Lingua originale	Inglese
pagine (da-a)	477-508
Numero di pagine	32
Rivista	International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
Volume	36
Numero di pubblicazione	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09940-3
Stato di pubblicazione	Pubblicato - apr 2023

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