(P/B) MACHIAVELLI IN THE MAKING

Παρουσίαση

Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the Florentines work and a critical document for understanding influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort's later writings on democracy and totalitarianism. Lefort extricates Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of him 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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's note
Part I: The Question of the Oeuvre
Part II: The Concept of Machiavellianism
Part III: Reading The Prince
Part IV: Reading The Discourses
Part VI: The Oeuvre, Ideology, and Interpretation