ABSTRACT Both Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben draw on the ancient Greek concept of nomos as an important element underpinning their legal theories. Aiming to restore that concept to its pre-sophistic meaning, they grant central weight to a piece of poetry in which Pindar famously proclaims that ‘law (nomos) is king of all’, guiding both mortals and immortals while ‘justifying the utmost violence with a powerful hand’. For Schmitt as for Agamben, this means that the Pindaric fragment exposes the violent origins of law that normativist jurisprudence typically shields from view. For one thing, I will explain in this article why Schmitt’s and Agamben’s use of the fragment is at odds with any acceptable interpretation of it in its wider literary and historical context. More importantly, perhaps, my aim is ultimately to reconstruct a Pindaric jurisprudence as it should actually be preferred to that of both Schmitt and Agamben.

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法，万王之王：施密特，阿甘本，品达

摘要卡尔·施密特（Carl Schmitt）和乔治·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）都将古希腊的“正念”概念作为其法律理论的重要组成部分。为了使该概念恢复其先期的哲学意义，他们将重点放在诗歌中，品达（Pindar）著名地宣称“法律（nomos）是万物之王”，指导凡人和不朽之人，同时“以强大的手”。对于施密特（Schmitt）以及阿甘本（Agamben）而言，这意味着Pindaric片段暴露了法律的暴力起源，而法律主义法学通常遮蔽了法律的视野。一方面，我将在本文中解释为什么施密特和阿甘本对片段的使用与在更广泛的文学和历史背景下对该片段的任何可接受的解释相矛盾。更重要的是，也许