Dominus Mundi

Pier Giuseppe Monateri is Professor of Law at the University of Torino. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (New York), l'Accademia delle Scienze (Bologna) and la Société de Législation Comparée (Paris).

• 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

This fascinating study greatly contributes to the most recent discussions on interdisciplinary aspects of law. It represents a climax in the author’s deep involvement in philosophical discussions about the sublime aspects of the legal.