Coincidentia Oppositorum

Жан Боден: основоположник теории национального государства и специалист по ведьмам
"Jean Bodin's work lies at the head of the road in European thought that leads to the concept of national sovereignty. His masterwork, Les six livres de la République, which first appeared in 1576, ... addressed the current civil and religious wars in France and Europe as its fundamental problem. ... After discarding the framework of natural right and the transcendental perspectives that it always in some way invokes, Bodin presents us with a figure of the sovereign, or rather the state, that realistically and thus historically constructs its own origin and structure."
(from Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire)

"Pierre Naudé ... is convinced that nearly all witches have incuba, and sorcerers succuba, and also that they have intercourse with corpses animated by their household devils. Jean Bodin, in his Démonomanie des Sorciers (Paris, 1580), informs us that in Valois and Picardy succuba are caled coch-mares."
(from Ioan P. Couliano, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance)

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