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Title: Machiavelli in the Making
Condition: New
Author: Claude Lefort
Translator: Michael Smith
Contributor: Michael Smith (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780810124387
ISBN: 9780810124387
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 30/03/2012
Description: 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 moralising 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Weight: 710g
Book Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Release Year: 2012

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