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Leibniz: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Power - Demand and Domination

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A critical reading of Leibniz's legal theory, linking law, space and power

The concept of power has been a major feature of natural law theories. It evolved over the course of several centuries and was arguably the defining notion in both Hobbes' and Spinoza's doctrines of natural right. Yet Leibniz appears to effect a reversal in this millennium-long trajectory and demotes power to a derivative term of his philosophy.

What was the rationale behind this radical change? And what does this reversal mean for the philosophy that follows?

Connelly demonstrates how Leibniz's rearticulation of power and its associated concepts is motivated at least in part by the struggles that marked the terrain in which his ideas were rooted - the struggle between Reformed and Scholastic theology, between natural law and natural right, and between mechanistic natural philosophy and human freedom. He locates Leibniz within power's wider evolution, and shows how the universal jurisprudence which Leibniz developed between 1660s and 1690s can be considered as a transformative encounter between power, activity and modality.

Drawing on thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Grotius, Husserl and Deleuze, Connelly traces Leibniz's conceptualisation of power through its applications in his legal texts, revealing that Leibniz in fact reconceptualises power under a new name: the state space. The move amounts to an internalisation of power as a moral world within each individual, submitting each practical agent to a universal set of obligations and prohibitions defined by that world. What though is at stake in bringing the objective world within each individual and submitting it to a public legal order? And what is the significance of this surgical manoeuvre for any archaeology of power?

Stephen Connelly is Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. From Trinity to Mind: The Intensional Basis of the Law
2. Potency and Supposita
3. Will: The Scholastic heritage
4. Will, power, and pretensionality
5. Ars combinatoria as Urdoxa
6. A New Method of Teaching Law
7. Power and obligation in the 1660s
8. Power and obligation in the Elementa Iuris Naturalis: the state space

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index


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Stephen Connelly is Associate Professor of Law at Warwick University. He is the author of Spinoza, Right and Absolute Freedom (2015). His research interests include Corporate and financial law; regulation and supervision in the international financial context; legal theory, including natural right theories.

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Drawing on thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Grotius, Husserl and Deleuze, Connelly traces Leibniz's conceptualisation of power through its applications in his legal texts, revealing that Leibniz in fact reconceptualises power under a new name: the state space.

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Autori Stephen Connelly, Connelly Stephen
Editore Edinburgh University Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 30.09.2018
 
EAN 9781474418065
ISBN 978-1-4744-1806-5
Pagine 160
Serie Encounters in Law & Philosophy
Encounters in Law & Philosophy
Categoria Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie

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