Hobbes and Corneille on Political Representation

The European Legacy 14 (4):379-389 (2009)
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In this essay, I compare the meaning of political representation in Hobbes? Leviathan and Corneille's Cinna. For both authors, a monarch is a ?representer? and representation is a necessary condition of effective sovereignty. However, the term ?representation? means something entirely different in Hobbes and in Corneille. For the former, it means acting and speaking in the name of a multitude and in its absence; for the latter, it means acting and speaking in the presence of a political public, with the intention to impress this audience. I would like to argue that our late modern (or postmodern) conception of sovereignty can be seen as being (unconsciously) based on the conjunction of Hobbes? and Corneille's different notions of representation.

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Hobbes on representation.Quentin Skinner - 2005 - European Journal of Philosophy 13 (2):155–184.
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