Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the Florentine's 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.
| ISBN: | 9780810124370 |
| Publication date: | 30th March 2012 |
| Author: | Claude Lefort |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 526 pages |
| Series: | Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Phenomenology and Existentialism |
Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the Florentine's 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.
Machiavelli in the Making features in the following genres: Phenomenology and Existentialism
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Machiavelli in the Making was written by Claude Lefort and published by Northwestern University Press
Machiavelli in the Making has 526 pages
Yes it is part of Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy series