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The Radical Machiavelli : Politics, Philosophy, and Language / edited by Filippo Del Lucchese, Fabio Frosini, Vittorio Morfino

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Leiden [Netherlands] : Brill Academic Publishers, 2015.
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1 online resource
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Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969-, Frosini, Fabio, and Morfino, Vittorio, 1966-
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Language Note
Articles in English, Italian, and French.
Contents
List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1. Language, Text and Context of "The Prince" -- 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 Pedulla -- Part 2. Machiavelli and Philosophy -- 6. Lucretian naturalism and the evolution of Machiavelli's ethics / 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 / Sebastian Torres -- 10. Imitation and animality : on the relationship between nature and history in chapter XVIII of The prince / Tania Rispoli -- Part 3. Politics, Religion, and Prophecy -- 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 -- Part 4. Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism -- 15. Machiavelli, public debt, and the origin of political economy : an introduction / Jeremie 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 -- Part 5. Machiavelli and Marxism -- 20. Machiavelli was not a republicanist, or monarchist : on Louis Althusser's 'aleatory' interpretation of The prince / Mikko Lahtinen -- 21. Lectures machiaveliennes d'Althusser / Mohamed Moulfi -- 22. Machiavelli after Althusser / Banu Bargu -- 23. Gramsci's Machiavellian metaphor : restaging The prince / Peter D. Thomas. -- Index.
Summary
Machiavelli beyond Republicanism: Politics, Philosophy, and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society.
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ISBN
9789004287686 (electronic bk.)
900428768X (electronic bk.)
9789004287679
9004287671 (hardback ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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