“Person and foundation in Hobbes’ Leviathan”. Personification is a central device in the logic of statehood displayed by Hobbes’s Leviathan. On the one hand, it appears as an indispensable concept for understanding all the forms of intersubjective encounter, both cooperative and agonal, that can occur in any sphere, private or public. On the other, it intervenes in the generation of the power of absolute sovereignty and in the capillarity of each instance of the civil life in which it is effectively present, through its officials, judges and emissaries. Like all the conceptual figures offered by Hobbes, personification connotes ambiguities and complexities that problematize the domain structures that it seeks to legitimize. Our work proposes an analysis of the articulation potential of this concept with attention to the Hobbesian foundation of sovereignty and of the state buildin...

La personificación es un dispositivo central en la lógica de la estatalidad desplegada por el Leviatán de Hobbes. De un lado, aparece como concepto indispensable para la comprensión de todas las maneras de encuentro intersubjetivo, tanto cooperativo cuanto agonal, que pueden darse en cualquier ámbito en general, privado o público. Del otro, interviene en la generación del poder de la soberanía absoluta y en la capilaridad de cada instancia en la que esta se hace efectivamente presente en la vida civil, por vía de sus funcionarios, jueces y emisarios. Como todas las figuras conceptuales que ofrece Hobbes, la personificación connota ambigüedades y complejidades que problematizan las estructuras de dominio a las que pretende legitimar. Nuestro trabajo se propone un análisis del potencial de articulación de dicho concepto con miras a la fundamentación hobbesiana de la soberaní...

“Person and foundation in Hobbes’ Leviathan”. Personification is a central device in the logic of statehood displayed by Hobbes’s Leviathan. On the one hand, it appears as an indispensable concept for understanding all the forms of intersubjective encounter, both cooperative and agonal, that can occur in any sphere, private or public. On the other, it intervenes in the generation of the power of absolute sovereignty and in the capillarity of each instance of the civil life in which it is effectively present, through its officials, judges and emissaries. Like all the conceptual figures offered by Hobbes, personification connotes ambiguities and complexities that problematize the domain structures that it seeks to legitimize. Our work proposes an analysis of the articulation potential of this concept with attention to the Hobbesian foundation of sovereignty and of the state buildin...