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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lefort, Claude
Other Authors: Smith, Michael B. (Michael Bradley), 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Series:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
Subjects:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527.
Politisches Denken.
Das Politische.
Politische Philosophie.
Machiavelli, Niccolò.
Werk.
Table of Contents:
  • The question of the oeuvre
  • The concept of Machiavellianism
  • Reading The prince. First signs
  • The logic of force
  • The social abyss and attachment to power
  • Good and evil, the stable and the unstable, the real and the imaginary
  • The present and the possible
  • Reading The discourses. From The prince to The discourses
  • Rome and the "historical" society
  • Class difference
  • War, and the difference of times
  • Authority and the political subject
  • The oeuvre, ideology, and interpretation.