The Opposite of Obedience. Political Practices of Rebellion, Resistance, Subtraction

Abstract

We asked a series of questions to Angela de Benedictis and to Raffaele Laudani, authors of two volumes which foreground the relation between obedience and disobedience. The comparison covers a number of fundamental political concepts in the modern constitutional history: resistance, rebellion, revolution, constituent power, sovereignty. In this contest fundamental are the languages through which the claims against the order find expression,
in particular the legal language that is often used both to challenge the order and to confirm it. Not least arises the importance that disobedience had to make up the European and the Atlantic political space