The Bull of Phalaris: Atrocity and Political Theory

• In Event: Insiders and Outsiders

Brief Overview

This paper begins with a discussion of Seneca's notion of “bestial savagery" and then surveys various discussions of transgressive violence up to the present, emphasizing recurring extra-political themes of non-instrumental cruelty and madness.

Author

• Kristofer Jens Petersen-Overton, Suffolk University