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might to power to authority, how does the "State" exist and why Launching into the investigation of this question the author progresses through these three notions in describing the state and how it acts and is legitimated.
The notion of the sate has been discussed by many like Hobbes, Machiavelli, and others, The notion of the state relies on the force the state enacts, the "power" needed for that force and the "common good" that is produced by the state that legitimates it's existence.
Un interessante studio di dottrina dello Stato condotto sulla base delle categorie di "forza", "potere" e "autorità" che l'autore rielabora, in via del tutto originale, traendole dai concetti weberiani di Macht ed Herrschaft.
The author traces the notion of the state throughout history in the thoughts of the great thinkers and their canonic works, asking them the question "How states exist and why" and groups the answers he extracts under three main titles: might, power and authority.
The systematic of the book is quite interesting as he has chosen to develop a conceptual order rather than a chronologic one, tracing an idea from antiquity to the day.
It was fun to read, Also as he looks into a wide range of philosophers such

as Plato, Cicero, St, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Mosca, Bodin, Hobbes to Locke, Rousseau, Mill and Isiah Berlin it was a wholesome and informative analysis, On the other hand, I found some of his deductions a bit coerced and some of the philosophers were taken into account too extensively while many important ones were examined superfically.
It seemes to me he was a bit too partial to his own values on making the choice and in some cases it almost feels like he left out some crucial points intentionally to degrade a theory.
For example, while working hard to justify Machiavelli as an Italian he left Gramsci out altogether in spite of allocating a whole part to the matter of force and consent.
:. All in all it was a plesant and interrogative read as the book dealt with some very bold and interesting questions, .