IDH   23901
INSTITUTO DE HUMANIDADES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The Political Monster between Sovereignity and Biopolitics
Autor/es:
TORRANO, ANDREA
Lugar:
Londres
Reunión:
Congreso; The Power of Monstrosity; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Brunel University; University of London
Resumen:
This article problematizes the political category of monster in the State Theory of Hobbes. Even though the political thought has been traditionally focused on Leviathan?s figure as a political monster, here we pay particular attention to the maxim homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to man); which can be identified with the werewolf. This figure allows us, on the one hand, to show how the wolf becomes man (citizen) with the creation of the State; and on the other hand, the man becoming wolf, the constant threat of lupification of man. Hobbes? discourse of sovereignty aims to neutralize the werewolf. From a biopolitical perspective this neutralization can be seen as immunization. In this sense, the werewolf operates both as poison and as antidote ?phármakon- inside the State. The werewolf produces an inoculation with a therapeutical function: it is a dose of the same poison from which the State seeks to protect itself.