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Cardozo Law Review

Abstract

By nature we have been sons of wrath, according to a thoroughly explored passage of Pauline theology. I should like to put this text to a test. My purpose in this article is to view the work of a twentieth-century Sorbonne Professor of Law through the lens of this Pauline text. Clearly, such a procedure assumes some sort of extraordinary similarity of preoccupation as between these two thinkers. It assumes that the semantic components, filius and ira, and the question of their relationship, are equally crucial to both figures: to the fervent apostle and epistolographer who happened to have served as an appointed persecutor of Christians before being blinded by a voice from heaven and-despite two millenniathe law professor who happens to be at the same time a practicing psychoanalyst. The first thesis of this article is therefore that the problem of being filii irae, or sons of wrath, is common both to Paul of Tarsus and to Pierre Legendre. This status as children of wrath is their common problem, the problem they share, as adversaries always share the problem to which they give opposed solutions. The thesis, in other words, is that Legendre, like Paul, is both dependent on and subject to the grand European theme of a humankind composed of sons of wrath.

Keywords

Censorship, Jurisprudence, Roman Law, Legal History, Crimes

Disciplines

Jurisprudence | Law | Legal History

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