ISBN:
9789004287679
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (484 p)
Series Statement:
Thinking in Extremes
Parallel Title:
Print version The Radical Machiavelli : Politics, Philosophy, and Language
DDC:
303.48
Keywords:
Machiavelli, Niccolò ; 1469-1527 ; Principe ; Congresses
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Machiavelli, Niccolò ; 1469-1527 ; Influence ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈i〉Machiavelli beyond Republicanism: Politics, Philosophy, and Language〈/i〉 offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1'A question that will never close'; 2The Prince as a Battlefield; 3The Text, the Practice and the Truth; 4Language, Text and Context of 'The Prince'; 5Machiavelli and Philosophy; 6Politics, Religion, and Prophecy; 7Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism; 8Machiavelli and Marxism; 9Note on the citation of Machiavelli's works; part 1; Language, Text and Context of The Prince ; ∵; Chapter 1; Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani; Jean-Louis Fournel; 1Preambolo: la lingua dello stato di guerra
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2La lingua di Machiavelli come lingua di guerra3Il lessico della guerra nel testo machiavelliano: distinzioni e composizioni; 4Lingua generica: il caso-Principe; 5Il tempo delle parole: il confronto con il latino; Chapter 2; 'Uno piccolo dono': A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelli's The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations; Jean-Claude Zancarini; 1Travelling Texts; 2Coherence of the Act of Translation; 3An Approach to the Texts: Political Philology; 4Stato and Its Translations: Polysemy, 'Interference', and 'Tension in Meaning'
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5Reflections on the Act of Translation6Some Differences and Their Consequences: The Example of Il Principe XXI, 24; Chapter 3; Of 'Extravagant' Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX; Romain Descendre ; 1Civil Prince and Roman Law; 2'Avere il populo amico'; 3'Dall'ordine civile allo assoluto'; 4Broken Lines; Chapter 4; 'Italia' come spazio politico in Machiavelli ; Giorgio Inglese; Chapter 5; Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War; Gabriele Pedullà; part 2; Machiavelli and Philosophy ; ∵; Chapter 6; Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli's Ethics
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Alison BrownIntroduction; 1Hard Primitivism and the Growth of Expedient Justice and Religion; 2Men and Animals; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 7; Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince; Jacques Lezra; Chapter 8; The Five Theses of Machiavelli's 'Philosophy'; Vittorio Morfino; 1The Thesis of Invariance; 2Thesis of Universal Variability; 2.1Epistemological Consequences of the Formulation of the First Two Theses; 3The Primacy of the Encounter over the Form; 4 Thesis of the Primacy of the Interweaving of Times over Linear Time
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5Thesis of the Disarticulation of Truth and MemoryConclusion; Chapter 9; Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli; Sebastián Torres; 1Tempo, contingenza, conflitto; 2Il tempo controverso; 3Il tessuto dei desideri; 4Memoria involontaria; 5Il tempo della res (publica); 6Considerazioni finali; Chapter 10; Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince; Tania Rispoli; ∵; part 3; Politics, Religion, and Prophecy ; ∵; Chapter 11; Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief; Thomas Berns; Chapter 12
Description / Table of Contents:
Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion
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