Titolo La produttività politica della paura. Da Machiavelli a Nietzsche Periodico Filosofia politica Anno: 2010 - Volume: 24 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 9 - Pagina finale: 28
Biopolitics occupies a central role in classical-modern philosophy well before its the¬matization by German anthropology and French post-structuralism. Particularly, fear is openly transformed - via political theology - in something productive of order, public force, history. Moving from these assumptions, the aim of the essay is to pave the way for a political genealogy of fear. Some conceptualizations of fear - mainly those of Ma¬chiavelli, Hobbes, Hegel and Nietzsche - are therefore analyzed, arguing that fear is not erased but turned into a political and theoretical function.