In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Muller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. To grasp the meaning of the transformations of power, it is necessary to go to the roots: to the arch that originated it as a factor common to all human cultures and all historical periods. Power cannot be suppressed: any attempt to overcome it (by eliminating one or another form of its...