{"product_id":"the-radical-machiavelli-politics-philosophy-and-language-9789004287679","title":"The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy, and Language","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These papers cohere very well, often speaking to each other and sometimes disagreeing. They underscore the truism that The Prince remains a battlefield and that no consensus on it is likely ever to be reached. But these papers, with their carefully constructed arguments, extensive documentation, and nuanced evaluations, as well as their forty-seven pages of bibliography, do much to clear away old smoke.\" - John H. Geerken (Scripps College, emeritus), in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXX, no. 2 (summer 2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures     viii List of Contributors     ix  Introduction     1   Part 1: Language, Text and Context of The Prince  1  Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani     23 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     39 Jean-Claude Zancarini  3  Of ‘Extravagant’ Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX     56 Romain Descendre  4  ‘Italia’ come spazio politico in Machiavelli     73 Giorgio Inglese  5  Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War     81 Gabriele Pedulla   Part 2: Machiavelli and Philosophy  6  Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli’s Ethics     105 Alison Brown  7  Corpora Caeca : Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince     128 Jacques Lezra  8  The Five Theses of Machiavelli’s ‘Philosophy’     144 Vittorio Morfijino  9  Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli     174 Sebastian Torres  10  Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince     190 Tania Rispoli   Part 3: Politics, Religion, and Prophecy  11  Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief     207 Thomas Berns  12  Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion     219 Fabio Frosini  13  ‘Uno Mero Esecutore’: Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince     237 Warren Montag  14  Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence     250 Miguel Vatter   Part 4: Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism  15  Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction     273 Jeremie Barthas  16  Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising     306 Yves Winter  17  Machiavelli’s Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer     337 John P. McCormick  18  Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli’s Epistemology     349 Etienne Balibar  19  The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli’s Political Topography     368 Stefano Visentin   Part 5: Machiavelli and Marxism  20  Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser’s ‘Aleatory’ Interpretation of The Prince     393 Mikko Lahtinen  21  Lectures machiavéliennes d’Althusser     406 Mohamed Moulfiji  22  Machiavelli after Althusser     420 Banu Bargu  23  Gramsci’s Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince     440 Peter D. Thomas  Index     457","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210665517399,"sku":"9789004287679","price":193.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-radical-machiavelli-politics-philosophy-and-language-9789004287679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}