Estaciones del pánico. Primeras líneas de investigación

In these pages I try to select within the semantics of fear that helps to organize the modern image of the political and legal order the specific element of panic, in the hypothesis that the latter constitutes a difference which is also an epistemic resource. Put a little shortly: if fear presents itself as a constitutive reference of the order, of its constitution as well as of its maintenance, panic seems instead charged with a contrary sign; it speaks to us of the dissolution of an aggregate given for presupposition and is in solidarity in defining its boundaries and conditions of possibility. The goal is to retrace some moments in the history of panic trying to argue that panic is a pol…