La Palestine comme métaphore

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Marc Adam Kolakowski
Keyword(s):  
Jean Bodin

Pour Johann Wilhelm Stucki (1542-1607), les Juifs et Palesti-niens de l’Antiquité se constituent en acteurs d’une scène ou-verte sur le passé, un laboratoire où s’élaborent des solutions pour le présent. En effet, le parallèle est dressé par le polymathe zurichois entre le conflit biblique qui oppose Israël à ses voisins de Palestine et les guerres de religions qui secouent l’Europe de son temps. Fixer l’identité des divers protagonistes revient ici essen-tiellement à décrire sans solution de continuité leurs environne-ments, coutumes et religions : ainsi, le caractère mal défini du territoire palestinien, entre mer et terre, explique l’ambivalence de leurs mœurs et l’aspect des divinités qu’ils ho-norent, figures ambiguës à la fois marines et agricoles. En s’appuyant sur une théorie des climats récemment remise au goût du jour par Jean Bodin (Six Livres de la République, Paris 1576), Stucki rend compte d’un conflit inscrit dans la nature-même des choses. Seule solution politique viable à ses yeux : la reconnaissance mutuelle des différences et leur mise en jeu dans un processus dialectique de vicinitas ou « bon voisi-nage ».

Educational Pursuits

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howell A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Jean Bodin ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Pursuits

The chapter opens with a brief description of Paris at around the time of Bodin’s arrival. It notes the location of the Carmelite house, near the colleges of the University of Paris, and specifies intellectual influences at work there, both humanist and scholastic. They included ongoing debate over key philosophical, theological, and jurisprudential issues to consideration of which Bodin would have been exposed. They also included debates over the proper use of language, over modes of literary presentation, and over analytical methodology. The contribution of Pierre de La Ramée (Ramus) to these debates is examined, and the principal components of his celebrated ‘method’ are identified. Attention is drawn to the continued importance of Aristotle in these areas of thought and instruction. Finally, the question is examined whether the ‘Jehan Baudin’ arrested and imprisoned in 1548 as a suspect heretic was in fact the Carmelite novice, Jean Bodin of Angers.

Rousseau, Bodin, and the Medieval Corporatist Origins of Popular Sovereignty

2021 ◽  
pp. 009059172098545
Author(s):  
Dan Edelstein
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Jean Bodin ◽  
Classic Argument

This essay reconsiders Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s debt to Jean Bodin, on the basis of Daniel Lee’s recent revision of Bodin as a theorist of popular sovereignty. It argues that Rousseau took a key feature of his own theory of democratic sovereignty from Bodin—namely, the dual identity of political members as both citizens and subjects of the state. It further makes the case that this dual identity originates in medieval corporatist law, which Bodin was summarizing. Finally, it demonstrates the lasting impact of corporatist law in eighteenth-century France, highlighting Rousseau’s direct borrowings from the corporatist language and logic of contemporary commercial societies. In this regard, the article revisits and updates Otto von Gierke’s classic argument about the origins of the state in corporatist thought.

Scatter 2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bennington
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Political ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Jean Bodin ◽  
Marsilius Of Padua ◽  
The One ◽  
Nuremberg Trials

Scatter 2 identifies politics as an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy—as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery as is philosophy’s traditional adversary, poetry. That difficulty makes it an attractive area of attention for any deconstructive approach to the tradition from which we inevitably inherit our language and our concepts. Scatter 2 pursues that deconstruction, often starting, and sometimes departing, from the work of Jacques Derrida, by attending to the concepts of sovereignty on the one hand, and democracy on the other. Part I follows the fate of a line from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, where Odysseus asserts that “the rule of many is no good thing, let there be one ruler, one king,” as it is quoted and misquoted, and progressively Christianized, by authors including Aristotle, Philo Judaeus, Suetonius, the early Church Fathers, Aquinas, Dante, Ockham, Marsilius of Padua, Jean Bodin, Etienne de la Boétie, up to Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson, and even one of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, before being discussed by Derrida himself. Part II begins again, as it were, with Plato and Aristotle, and tracks the concept of democracy as it regularly impacts and tends to undermine that sovereignist tradition, and, more especially in detailed readings of Hobbes and Rousseau, develops a notion of “proto-democracy” as a possible name for the scatter that underlies and drives the political as such, and that will always prevent politics from achieving its aim of bringing itself to an end.

O conceito de soberania em Jean Bodin

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Aparecida Riscal
Keyword(s):  
Jean Bodin
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