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Author Monateri, P. G. (Pier Giuseppe), author.

Title Dominus mundi : political sublime and the world order / Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Published Oxford ; New York : Hart Publishing, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages)
Contents 1. Master of the World and the Law of the Sea -- I. The Dominus, Carl Schmitt and Beyond -- II. The Dominus and Its Several Meanings -- III. The Dominus and Its Genealogy -- IV. Re-Thinking the Greek Rome -- 2. The Christian Empire as World Order -- I. The Revival of the Dominus -- II. Imperial Messianism -- III. The Lord of the Flies -- 3. Political Theology from Satan to Legitimacy -- I. Spatiality, Sovereignty and the Geopolitics of Discovery -- II. From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism -- 4. Demonological Inversion and the Birth of the Leviathan -- I. James I, the Witches and Bodin -- II. Leviathan's Ambiguity -- III. The Dominus Mundi and Hobbes's Frontispiece -- 5. Sublime Dissolution -- I. The Collapse of Modernity -- II. New Monsters and Good Feelings -- III. The Political Refoulé -- IV. The Ghost of the Dominus
Summary This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe. In particular it examines the expression 'dominus mundi', following it through the texts of the medieval jurists - the Glossators and Post-Glossators - up to the political thought of Hobbes. Understanding the concept of dominus mundi sheds light on how medieval jurists understood ownership of individual things; it is more complex than it might seem; and this book investigates these complexities. The book also offers important new insights into Thomas Hobbes, especially with regard to the end of dominus mundi and the replacement by Leviathan. Finally, the book has important relevance for contemporary political theory. With fading of political diversity Monateri argues "that the actual setting of globalisation represents the reappearance of the Ghost of the Dominus Mundi, a political refoulé - repressed - a reappearance of its sublime nature, and a struggle to restore its universal legitimacy, and take its place." In making this argument, the book adds an important original vision to current debates in legal and political philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2022)
Subject Roman law -- History.
Law -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Europe -- Philosophy
Roman law -- Reception -- Europe
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Law -- Philosophy
Political science -- Philosophy
Roman law
Roman law -- Reception
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018013821
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