The Radical Machiavelli : Politics, Philosophy, and Language.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 'A question that will never close' -- 2 The Prince as a Battlefield -- 3 The Text, the Practice and the Truth -- 4 Language, Text and Context of 'The Prince' -- 5 Machiavelli and Philosophy -- 6 Politics, Religion, and Prophecy -- 7 Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism -- 8 Machiavelli and Marxism -- 9 Note on the citation of Machiavelli's works -- part 1 -- Language, Text and Context of The Prince -- ∵ -- Chapter 1 -- Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani -- Jean-Louis Fournel -- 1 Preambolo: la lingua dello stato di guerra -- 2 La lingua di Machiavelli come lingua di guerra -- 3 Il lessico della guerra nel testo machiavelliano: distinzioni e composizioni -- 4 Lingua generica: il caso-Principe -- 5 Il tempo delle parole: il confronto con il latino -- Chapter 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 -- 1 Travelling Texts -- 2 Coherence of the Act of Translation -- 3 An Approach to the Texts: Political Philology -- 4 Stato and Its Translations: Polysemy, 'Interference', and 'Tension in Meaning' -- 5 Reflections on the Act of Translation -- 6 Some Differences and Their Consequences: The Example of Il Principe XXI, 24 -- Chapter 3 -- Of 'Extravagant' Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX -- Romain Descendre -- 1 Civil Prince and Roman Law -- 2 'Avere il populo amico' -- 3 'Dall'ordine civile allo assoluto' -- 4 Broken Lines -- Chapter 4 -- 'Italia' come spazio politico in Machiavelli -- Giorgio Inglese -- Chapter 5 -- Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War -- Gabriele Pedullà -- part 2 -- Machiavelli and Philosophy -- ∵ -- Chapter 6.

Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli's Ethics -- Alison Brown -- Introduction -- 1 Hard Primitivism and the Growth of Expedient Justice and Religion -- 2 Men and Animals -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 7 -- Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince -- Jacques Lezra -- Chapter 8 -- The Five Theses of Machiavelli's 'Philosophy' -- Vittorio Morfino -- 1 The Thesis of Invariance -- 2 Thesis of Universal Variability -- 2.1 Epistemological Consequences of the Formulation of the First Two Theses -- 3 The Primacy of the Encounter over the Form -- 4 Thesis of the Primacy of the Interweaving of Times over Linear Time -- 5 Thesis of the Disarticulation of Truth and Memory -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 -- Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli -- Sebastián Torres -- 1 Tempo, contingenza, conflitto -- 2 Il tempo controverso -- 3 Il tessuto dei desideri -- 4 Memoria involontaria -- 5 Il tempo della res (publica) -- 6 Considerazioni finali -- Chapter 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 -- ∵ -- Chapter 11 -- Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief -- Thomas Berns -- Chapter 12 -- Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion -- Fabio Frosini -- 1 Fanaticism, Religion, and Politics -- 2 A Speculative Re-translation -- 3 Discussing the Reasons -- 4 Necessity, Virtue and Desire -- 5 Interpreting Religion, and Education -- 6 ... One Should Speak with Reverence of Such a Man... -- 7 Savonarola's Prophetism -- Chapter 13 -- 'Uno Mero Esecutore': Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in the The Prince -- Warren Montag -- Chapter 14.

Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence -- Miguel Vatter -- 1 The 'Providential Logic' in Chapter 26 of The Prince -- 2 Military Order and Divine Providence: From Moses to Cicero and Augustine and Back -- 3 The Messianic Moment in Machiavelli's Republicanism -- part 4 -- Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism -- ∵ -- Chapter 15 -- Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origins of Political Economy: An Introduction -- Jérémie Barthas -- Chapter 16 -- Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising -- Yves Winter -- 1 Who were the Ciompi? -- 2 The Three Acts of the Ciompi Uprising -- 3 Machiavelli's Two Voices -- 4 A Plebeian Call to Arms -- 5 How to Read an Invented Speech -- 6 Interpreting the Anonymous Voice -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Full Text of the Speech -- Chapter 17 -- Machiavelli's Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer -- John P. McCormick -- 1 Humanism and Tyranny -- 2 The Civil Tyranny -- 3 Corrupt Republics and Tyrannical Reformers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18 -- Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli's Epistemology -- Etienne Balibar -- 1 Knowledge, Conflict, Truth -- 2 The Prince and the People: Knowing Each Other's Nature -- 3 Embodying Political Antagonism into Knowledge -- 4 Partiality, Truth and the Displacement of the Prince -- 5 Back to the Present: Machiavelli's Challenge to Universalism -- Chapter 19 -- The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli's Political Topography -- Stefano Visentin -- 1 The Apparition of the People -- 2 The People as Plebs -- 3 The People as Multitude -- 4 The Tie between the People and Its Prince -- 5 The People Internally Divided -- 6 The Place of the People, the Place of Machiavelli -- part 5 -- Machiavelli and Marxism -- ∵ -- Chapter 20.

Machiavelli was Not a Republicanist - or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser's 'Aleatory' Interpretation of The Prince -- Mikko Lahtinen -- 1 The State and the Law -- 2 Philosopher of the Effective Truth -- 3 Aleatory Dynamics -- 4 'Verità effettuale della cosa' - The Effective Truth -- Conclusion: Materialist Political Theory -- Chapter 21 -- Lectures machiavéliennes d'Althusser -- Mohamed Moulfi -- 1 Résurgence de Machiavel -- 2 Pour une théorie politique -- 3 Machiavel comme philosophe -- Chapter 22 -- Machiavelli after Althusser -- Banu Bargu -- 1 Primitive Political Accumulation -- 2 Machiavelli, the Materialist -- 3 An Aleatory Materialist Dialectic? -- Chapter 23 -- Gramsci's Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince -- Peter Thomas -- Index.

The Radical Machiavelli: 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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