caa a22 4500 467920907 CHVBK 20180406152916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10978-006-0001-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10978-006-0001-0 Brighenti Andrea Andrea Brighenti, via Franz Kafka, 8, 38066, Riva del Garda, Italy aut Did We Really Get Rid of Commands? Thoughts on a Theme from Elias Canetti [Elektronische Daten] [Andrea Brighenti] Neither in contemporary sociology nor in legal theory is much attention paid to the theoretical object of commands. This paper explores some features of commands that tend to remain largely invisible in social action, as well as largely under-theorized in the scholarly literature. The analysis draws on early reflection by Elias Canetti and tries to clarify the dynamics of the relationship between law and commands from a sociological perspective. The main claim is that command cannot be reduced to a linguistic entity, but has to be considered in the more complex frame of a direct relationship among subjects and their bodies within a shared space. Explanation of commands is made even more difficult by the fact that they take place in a space that is located ambiguously in between the realm of the subjective and that of the objective, in between passions and institutions. Springer, 2006 authority nationallicence body nationallicence command nationallicence legitimation nationallicence power nationallicence Law and Critique Kluwer Academic Publishers 17/1(2006-04-01), 47-71 0957-8536 17:1<47 2006 17 10978 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-0001-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-0001-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brighenti Andrea Andrea Brighenti, via Franz Kafka, 8, 38066, Riva del Garda, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and Critique Kluwer Academic Publishers 17/1(2006-04-01), 47-71 0957-8536 17:1<47 2006 17 10978 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer