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

• TeilnehmendeR: Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969-; Frosini, Fabio,; Morfino, Vittorio, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Thinking in Extremes 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (484 p.)
• Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference and Brunel University, May 29-30, 2013.

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.

Table of 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.