Product details
ISBN
9780810124387
Published
2012-03-30
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Weight
710 gr
Height
226 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
35 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
526
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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.
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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.
Read more
Product details
ISBN
9780810124387
Published
2012-03-30
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Weight
710 gr
Height
226 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
35 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
526
Author
Translated by