The radical Machiavelli : politics, philosophy and language / edited by Filippo del Lucchese, Fabio Frosini, Vittorio Morfino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969- editor.

Frosini, Fabio, editor.

Morfino, Vittorio, 1966- editor.

Series:

Thinking in Extremes 1.

Thinking in Extremes, 2352-1155 ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Principe--Congresses.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Influence--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language , some of the finest Machiavellian scholars explore the Florentine’s thought five hundred years after the composition of his masterpiece, The Prince . Their analysis, however, goes past The Prince , extending to Machiavelli’s entire corpus and shining new light on his political, historical, and military works, with a special focus on their heritage in modern Marxist thought, the arena in which they reverberate most profoundly and originally. Rather than a neutral, comprehensive, and safe interpretation, this book offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, the 16th-century thinker who continues to divide scholars and interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society where Machiavelli's ideas and the issues they address still matter. Contributors are: Etienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Jérémie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alison Brown, Filippo Del Lucchese, Romain Descendre, Jean-Louis Fournel, Fabio Frosini, Giorgio Inglese, Mikko Lahtinen, Jacques Lezra, John P. McCormick, Warren Montag, Vittorio Morfino, Mohamed Moulfi, Gabriele Pedullà, Tania Rispoli, Peter D. Thomas, Sebastian Torres, Miguel Vatter, Stefano Visentin, Yves Winter, and Jean-Claude Zancarini.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino

1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani / Jean-Louis Fournel

2 ‘Uno piccolo dono’: A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations / Jean-Claude Zancarini

3 Of ‘Extravagant’ Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX / Romain Descendre

4 ‘Italia’ come spazio politico in Machiavelli / Giorgio Inglese

5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War / Gabriele Pedullà

6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli’s Ethic / Alison Brown

7 Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince / Jacques Lezra

8 The Five Theses of Machiavelli’s ‘Philosophy’ / Vittorio Morfino

9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli / Sebastián Torres

10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince / Tania Rispoli

11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief / Thomas Berns

12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion / Fabio Frosini

13 ‘Uno Mero Esecutore’: Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince / Warren Montag

14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence / Miguel Vatter

15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction / Jérémie Barthas

16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising / Yves Winter

17 Machiavelli’s Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer / John P. McCormick

18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli’s Epistemology / Etienne Balibar

19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli’s Political Topography / Stefano Visentin

20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser’s ‘Aleatory’ Interpretation of The Prince / Mikko Lahtinen

21 Lectures machiavéliennes d’Althusser / Mohamed Moulfi

22 Machiavelli after Althusser / Banu Bargu

23 Gramsci’s Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince / Peter D. Thomas

Index / Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference and Brunel University, May 29-30, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28768-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004287686 DOI