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The Right to Self-Preservation? Corporeal Considerations in the Leviathan
2020
Bogazici Journal
Diverging from the readings that correlate it with right to self-defense, the paper offers a new look at the Hobbesian right to self-preservation and its conceptualization as a limit to the Leviathan's sovereignty. The paper argues that the subject's right to self-preservation should be read not solely in the context of external attacks, but also against subjects' own corporeal vulnerabilities (perishability, woundability and emotional vulnerability). The primary task of the Leviathan is thus
doi:10.21773/boun.34.2.3
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