Dragon Veils

Author's name: Fathi Al-Maskini

"It is precisely in this context that we should apply Hobbes's statement that the state is a dragon, and thus resembles a 'mortal god'... What concerns us here, from the perspective of the relationship between war and the state, is that Hobbes found no name to express the nature of the state that could secure a peaceful exit from the age of religious wars other than the name dragon, which is of particular significance." This book offers a critical vision of the idea of ​​the state, its concept, and the circumstances of its founding. He sees the impossibility of imagining the need for the state without a diagnosis that describes the elements of the spiritual crisis. The state emerged on a horizon that had just emerged from the horizon of religion, as the personal god of religions withdrew, leaving his place vacant. At that point, the state was born—that foreign body that can only exist in the form of a dragon. This book also leads us to the demonstrations of peoples who realized that democracy is not an event, and therefore they must demand citizenship before identity, and move from freedom of opinion to freedom of truth.