What is revealed when power is challenged?
Political disobedience has been interpreted as a right, as resistance, as a moral stance. This work proposes a different starting point: that disobedience is not merely a political act, but a rupture point in the very way the political order makes sense of itself.
Starting from the philosophy of John Locke, it attempts to formulate the first foundational terms of a theory according to which political disobedience emerges when power is detached from its human origin and established as normality. Disobedience, from this perspective, does not dissolve the political form; it reveals its limit.
Through the analysis of three hypothetical forms of political constitution — of authoritarian necessity, natural order, and historical necessity — the book examines how political systems transform their constitution into apparent necessity. In the crack of this naturalization emerges the critical question: Can a political community remain legitimate if it does not allow the possibility of being challenged?
The work does not aim to close the discussion; it seeks to open a theoretical field. To set the terms of a problematic in which political disobedience is not an exception to the order, but a structural possibility of it.
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- Author
- THeofanis Asproudis
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Papazisi
- Subtitle
- Philosophical Study on the Political Philosophy of John Locke
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789600246810
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- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 138
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- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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