Dominus Mundi: Political Sublime and the World Order

Author: Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509911752
Published In: September 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe.

In particular it examines the expression `dominus mundi', following it through the texts of the medieval jurists - the Glossators and Post-Glossators - up to the political thought of Hobbes. Understanding the concept of dominus mundi sheds light on how medieval jurists understood ownership of individual things; it is more complex than it might seem; and this book investigates these complexities.

The book also offers important new insights into Thomas Hobbes, especially with regard to the end of dominus mundi and the replacement by Leviathan. Finally, the book has important relevance for contemporary political theory.

With fading of political diversity Monateri argues "that the actual setting of globalisation represents the reappearance of the Ghost of the Dominus Mundi, a political refoule - repressed - a reappearance of its sublime nature, and a struggle to restore its universal legitimacy, and take its place." In making this argument, the book adds an important original vision to current debates in legal and political philosophy.

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