Espinosa, Kelsen e a natureza da norma jurídica

The paper aims at the understudied relationship of Kelsen’s work and Spinoza theory. Tracing affinities, oppositions and appropriations, the central works of Kelsen, even still the great distance in time, present questions that have its origins in the political thought of Spinoza. As the clear link between the spinozian notion of imperium and the kelsenian State