Tres procesos judiciales: hacia una estética del acontecimiento

Abstract

The problem of drawing a significant analogy between three events at first sight hardly comparable is described, namely, the trials of Socrates, Galileo, and Joseph K. Some main interpretations are analyzed but all of them are found nor really satisfactory. An alternative approach is then introduced -an «esthetic of the event»- which discloses a deep analogy between the three trials. So it is argued, first, that in the background of all the three events a crisis of the articulation between the world image, the form of life, and meaning was developing. And, secondly, it is also argued that the three trials are archetypical modes of the clash between the individual and Power.