On the Wolf. Force of Law

  • Simone Regazzoni Universidad de Padua
Keywords: Wolf, power, violence, sovereignty, force of law, Solon

Abstract

For elucidating the relation between violence and justice, that gives rise to the phrase «force of law», the figure of wolf, the lupus in fabula, occupies a strategic place in the western philosophical and political discourse. The double reading –or writing– of such a phrase in a text by Solon, because of a lapsus calami – indeed a masterly slip of the pen, as Derrida reminds us– allows us to see the –paradoxical– double face of the sovereign kratos: that of force without law and outside the law that establishes the law, and that of force incorporated into the law to accomplish justice. The figure of the wolf embodies this paradox of sovereignty.

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Regazzoni S. (2012). On the Wolf. Force of Law. Escritura e Imagen, Extra, 259-270. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2011.37737