Machiavelli in the making /
In Machiavelli in the Making, the influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort introduces a wholly novel interpretation of Niccoló Machiavelli's oeuvre, revealing in the Florentine's thought a thoroughly modern concept of the political with implications for "our ex...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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| Summary: | In Machiavelli in the Making, the influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort introduces a wholly novel interpretation of Niccoló Machiavelli's oeuvre, revealing in the Florentine's thought a thoroughly modern concept of the political with implications for "our experience of politics here and now." Lefort extricates Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of Machiavelli as the founder of "objective" political science, which, having liberated itself from the religious and moralizing tendencies of medieval political reflection, attempts to arrive at a realistic discourse on the operations of raw power. Lefort ultimately finds that Machiavelli's discourse opens the "place of the political," which had previously been occupied by theology and morality. An essential contribution to the ongoing reassessment of Machiavelli's significance, Machiavelli in the Making also stands as a crucial text for the understanding of Lefort's later writings on democracy and totallitarianism. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in French as Le travail de l'oeuvre Machiavel by Editions Gallimard, Paris, France, 2005"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 512 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780810124370 (cloth : alk. paper) 0810124378 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780810124387 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0810124386 (pbk. : alk. paper) |