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Les Mistères de Paris: ovvero il lancio del diritto promozionale
Cossutta, Marco
2022
Abstract
Eugène Sue describes the miserable living conditions in the Parisian slums, where the story - set in 1838 - takes place, and he recognizes how the manual worker is degraded to the condition of beast of burden. The author pleads for a philanthropic intervention to put an end to that aberrant state of affairs clamoring for direct state intervention. Alongside a repressive state apparatus of crime (which thrives among the plebs), he advocates a protectionist juridical apparatus of the weakest by outlining a perspective that will come true in the welfare state, advocating a radical overcoming of the liberal gendarme-state. Sue debunks the myth of equality on which the law of the bourgeois state is based, denounces the social origin of the crime and questions the entire individualistic-liberal structure. A vision of promotion of the law must prevail, where the (positive) sanctions are aimed at the inclusion of the weaker classes, not at their further marginalization, which occurs through punishment.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Marco Cossutta, "Les Mistères de Paris: ovvero il lancio del diritto promozionale" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2022) XXIV/3", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2022, pp. 483-487
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it
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