Society and Security

The study emphasizes the most important theories in the field of security studies and is concerned with the threats directed at the supportive elements of human communities which are less visible than the traditional ones. They are accompanied by a force that conquers mental spaces and changes the individual's self-awareness, namely that of the social will. This study discusses the societal security of the social will on a historical time axis, beginning with the 12th century (when social authority, temporal power, is separated from the authority of the Church, from spiritual power), followed by a second historical moment of the deconstruction of social frames, which occurred in the 19th century (that of the romantic culture, as reaction to the rationalist individualist trend), and by the year 1989, a third moment of rupture analyzed in comparison with the others.