Machiavelli in the Making

By:

Claude Lefort

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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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.

Author Biography:

CLAUDE LEFORT (1924-2010) taught at the University of São Paulo, the Sorbonne, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His books include The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism (1986), Democracy and Political Theory (1989), Writing: The Political Test (2000), and Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy (2007).

Release date NZ

March 30th, 2012

Author

Claude Lefort

Series

Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Contributor

Translated by Michael Smith

Pages

526

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

152x229x36

ISBN-13

9780810124387

Product ID

10345890

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