Abstract

This chapter shows that a different relationship between the individual and power can be outlined based on a reinterpretation of the right of resistance. This outline is that of a figure of the political subject which is very different from that of the submitted subject, since the individual begins to constitute a subject from the moment he resists power. But of course one should not go too far in this direction: Hobbesian doctrine has as its main object the foundation of obedience on the part of subjects. But it should also be known that his political doctrine often contains surprises and that, looked at back-to-front, it can say things which are both different from, and more profound than, what it yields to a direct-method reading.