Il potere venerato per la sua impotenza: Pierre Clastres e l’(an)archeologia “selvaggia” del politico

The paper aims to analyse the crux of the reflection of the anthropologist Pierre Clastres within the discursive regime of late modernity: is a stateless society really conceivable? And the image of a non-coercive power that goes beyond the image of Western power as a connection between command and obedience? A journey within a splendid dream, that of the most mature anthropology, and a reflection that places us before a very particular answer to those that are the two fundamental questions of modernity: what is man and what is society.