Legal Systemology and the Geopolitics of Roman Law: A Response to Stuart Elden’s Critique of Carl Schmitt’s Spatial Ontology
Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Abstract This paper explores the production, destruction, and reproduction of geopolitical spaces Roman law in order to offer an analysis Schmitt’s (selective) notion Jus Publicum Europaeum its relevance current “depoliticization” “dejuridification” world. By adopting a historical approach that reaches boundaries legal systemology political theology, present contribution investigates manipulative instrumentalist use material object Rome’s (universalist) competence, namely “territory” as dominium intervention, which was ultimately (and idealistically) aimed at avoiding natural destiny any living being: birth, maturity, death. Attention is therefore paid strategy (ontological?) contamination mythical identity through sociopolitical administration regulation geographical terms (non-)cultural signification. Through such concepts “ nomos ,” Großraum Ortung Ordnung it claimed Schmitt voluntarily chose identify with produced during Age Discovery not “comprehensive” spatial order. The reason for this choice may be identified distortive social relations allegiances lay core genealogical expansionism subsequent inevitable dissolution) since conquest Veius 396 BC compromise between patrician nobility plebeians 367 BC.
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