This book helps a forgotten troublemaker - perhaps the troublemaker par excellence - make a grand comeback: the puer robustus, the strong boy who acts on his own, disregards the rules, clashes, rebels, and sometimes strikes back. As a villain or a hero, a figure of fear or a role model, he has stirred the minds of great poets and thinkers for over three centuries. Hobbes and Rousseau, Schiller and Hugo, Diderot and Tocqueville, Marx, Freud, Carl Schmitt, and many others saw in him even a key figure through which a central problem of political philosophy is determined: the relationship between order and disruption. Even today, the future of modern society hangs in the balance. And it is still not decided in the center of power, but at the margins, where crises are fought out. There - on the threshold to.