Sophocles's Antigone or the invention of politics : we the city -- D.A.F. de Sade's One hundred and twenty days of Sodom or the re-invention of politics : we the people -- Mario Vargas Llosa's The feast of the goat or sovereign politics : we the nation-state
Summary
Through innovative readings of Sophocles, the Marquis de Sade and Mario Vargas Llosa, Binding Violence examines literary visions of the constitution of autonomous polities in the context of historical emergences of democracy
