Buch, Englisch, 526 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 703 g
Buch, Englisch, 526 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 703 g
Reihe: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
ISBN: 978-0-8101-2438-7
Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres
<em>Machiavelli in the Making</em> 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.
