"In this book Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta M鋎ller, 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. This book explores the issue of power from a philosophical literary perspective. It tackles the linguistic and literary relations between the notions of "power" and "potential"."--