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Niccolò Machiavelli
After addressing Lefort’s idea of modernity, his reading of Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia, and his thoughts on Florentine humanism, the remainder of... -
Class Warfare in Guicciardini’s Considerations on Machiavelli: Alibis, Evasions, and Counter-Provocations
This paper examines Francesco Guicciardini’s various efforts to engage, evade, or protest Machiavelli’s arguments concerning social class, the... -
Mittelalterliche Autoritäten und Emporkömmlinge der Renaissance: Thomas von Aquin und Niccolò Machiavelli
Im Zuge der mittelalterlichen Aristotelesrezeption und vor dem Hintergrund von Konflikten vor allem zwischen geistlicher und weltlicher Autoritäten... -
Aphorism by Pundits: Chanakya and Machiavelli
Statecraft is often used to mean the skill and flair of running the state. What it means is often taken as aphorism provided by pundits. This chapter... -
Gramsci and Machiavelli: Jacobinism Mediating the Prince’s Movement
Gramsci lamented that four centuries after Machiavelli’s death, the teachings of his short book The Prince, produced in 1513, hadn’t yet become... -
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Machiavelli’s Revolutionary Classical Education
Machiavelli did not treat education in terms of the formation of the soul, or as a theme distinct from politics and religion. Consequently, there are... -
John Ford’s Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism
John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a profound meditation on the paradoxical phenomenon of political founding worthy of Machiavelli (The... -
The Ambitions of Government: Statecraft in Historical Perspective
This chapter provides a historical and theoretical context for thinking about the role of the state in relation to the achievement of shared ends,... -
First Approach: Normative Versus Utility-Oriented Approaches to Emotions
In this section, the literature on emotions in politics is classified into two different branches. One, rooted in Plato and continued in writings of... -
Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy
Theories of international relations tend to reduce Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War (the History) to a tragic narrative. International... -
Regime and Education A Study in the History of Political Philosophy
This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contributor addresses the... -
Claude Lefort's Political Philosophy Democracy, Indeterminacy, Institution
This book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Lefort’s thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although all scholars recognize the...
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Introduction: Theorizing Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories
Pundits and political scientists have characterized Donald Trump’s unexpected rise to the presidency and his disruptive discourse as another... -
Gramsci and the Emancipation of the Subaltern Classes
This book outlines essential issues of Antonio Gramsci’s thought, from his relationship to other political thinkers, including Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin,...