SIMBOLO, POTERE, PERSONA. UN’ANALISI DELLA PROSPETTIVA DI GIUSEPPE LIMONE

The article outlines the main characteristics of the research of Giuseppe Limone, a contemporary Neapolitan philosopher, particularly focusing on the symbolic implications of the relationship between political power and legal right(s). In the first five paragraphs Limone’s theories are compared with those of some wellknown authors (Rousseau, Kelsen, Hart, Habermas, Dworkin) in order to briefly define theoretical differences and similarities; the sixth and final paragraph outlines a possible operational – i.e. from a legal standpoint – implementation of “personalism” as a philosophical perspective, conceived as a hermeneutical tool able to equally focus and increase the protection of fundamental rights as stated in different sources of international and supranational Law.