Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis: Modern theory of sovereignty and the neutralization of Atlantic Disobedience

Abstract

The essay offers an Atlantic reading of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government based on the spatial concepts of “Land” and “Sea”. «Land» is considered as the spatial principle of a terracentric conception of politics, in which politics is viewed as static, and order exists only when conflict is neutralized. «Sea», on the contrary, is the spatial principle of a maritime conception of politics, in which politics is viewed as fluid, and order is s...