En las colinas, las ciudades. Representación política y naturalización del mandato

Abstract

Political representation in Thomas Hobbes is a matter of bare designation. An exercise with language. The basic movement within the body of the Commonwealth is to appoint someone as officer for the people. This theoretical articulation is not sufficiently developed though. The aim of the present text is to profit from the help the four-fold taxonomy on representation by A.P. Griffiths and R. Wollheim offers, and of the ellucidation Michael Foessel presents around what is intimate before what is private/what is public, as instruments that could shed some light onto the fundamental intuitions Hobbes gathered in his main work, the Leviathan.