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 arche that originated it as a factor common to all human cultures and all historical periods. Power cann