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In The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language, some of the finest Machiavellian scholars explore the Florentineâs thought five hundred years after the composition of his masterpiece, The Prince. Their analysis, however, goes past The Prince, extending to Machiavelliâs entire corpus and shining new light on his political, historical, and military works, with a special focus on their heritage in modern Marxist thought, the arena in which they reverberate most profoundly and originally.
Rather than a neutral, comprehensive, and safe interpretation, this book offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, the 16th-century thinker who continues to divide scholars and interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society where Machiavelli's ideas and the issues they address still matter.
Contributors are: Etienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Jérémie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alison Brown, Filippo Del Lucchese, Romain Descendre, Jean-Louis Fournel, Fabio Frosini, Giorgio Inglese, Mikko Lahtinen, Jacques Lezra, John P. McCormick, Warren Montag, Vittorio Morfino, Mohamed Moulfi, Gabriele Pedullà , Tania Rispoli, Peter D. Thomas, Sebastian Torres, Miguel Vatter, Stefano Visentin, Yves Winter, and Jean-Claude Zancarini.
Rather than a neutral, comprehensive, and safe interpretation, this book offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, the 16th-century thinker who continues to divide scholars and interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society where Machiavelli's ideas and the issues they address still matter.
Contributors are: Etienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Jérémie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alison Brown, Filippo Del Lucchese, Romain Descendre, Jean-Louis Fournel, Fabio Frosini, Giorgio Inglese, Mikko Lahtinen, Jacques Lezra, John P. McCormick, Warren Montag, Vittorio Morfino, Mohamed Moulfi, Gabriele Pedullà , Tania Rispoli, Peter D. Thomas, Sebastian Torres, Miguel Vatter, Stefano Visentin, Yves Winter, and Jean-Claude Zancarini.
Filippo Del Lucchese is senior lecturer in History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London, senior research associate, University of Johannesburg, and chair at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. His research interests are in the early modern period (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), history of philosophy and Marxism.
Fabio Frosini is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the University of Urbino. His research interests include Renaissance philosophy and culture, Marxist thought, and political philosophy. His most recent books are Da Gramsci a Marx: Ideologia, verità e politica (DeriveApprodi, 2009), La religione dellâuomo moderno: Verità e politica nei Quaderni del carcere di Antonio Gramsci (Carocci, 2010) and Vita, tempo e linguaggio (1508â1510): Lettura Vinciana (Giunti , 2011).
Vittorio Morfino is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca and has been visiting professor at the USP (São Paulo) and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Il tempo e l'occasione: Lâincontro Spinoza Machiavelli (LED, 2002, Paris 2012), Incursioni spinoziste (Mimesis, 2002) as well as recently published the English volume, Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014).
Fabio Frosini is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the University of Urbino. His research interests include Renaissance philosophy and culture, Marxist thought, and political philosophy. His most recent books are Da Gramsci a Marx: Ideologia, verità e politica (DeriveApprodi, 2009), La religione dellâuomo moderno: Verità e politica nei Quaderni del carcere di Antonio Gramsci (Carocci, 2010) and Vita, tempo e linguaggio (1508â1510): Lettura Vinciana (Giunti , 2011).
Vittorio Morfino is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca and has been visiting professor at the USP (São Paulo) and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Il tempo e l'occasione: Lâincontro Spinoza Machiavelli (LED, 2002, Paris 2012), Incursioni spinoziste (Mimesis, 2002) as well as recently published the English volume, Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014).
"These papers cohere very well, often speaking to each other and sometimes disagreeing. They underscore the truism that The Prince remains a battlefield and that no consensus on it is likely ever to be reached. But these papers, with their carefully constructed arguments, extensive documentation, and nuanced evaluations, as well as their forty-seven pages of bibliography, do much to clear away old smoke."
- John H. Geerken (Scripps College, emeritus), in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXX, no. 2 (summer 2017)
- John H. Geerken (Scripps College, emeritus), in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXX, no. 2 (summer 2017)
List of Figures viii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Part 1: Language, Text and Context of The Prince
1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani 23
Jean-Louis Fournel
2 âUno piccolo donoâ: A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelliâs The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations 39
Jean-Claude Zancarini
3 Of âExtravagantâ Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX 56
Romain Descendre
4 âItaliaâ come spazio politico in Machiavelli 73
Giorgio Inglese
5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War 81
Gabriele Pedulla
Part 2: Machiavelli and Philosophy
6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelliâs Ethics 105
Alison Brown
7 Corpora Caeca : Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince 128
Jacques Lezra
8 The Five Theses of Machiavelliâs âPhilosophyâ 144
Vittorio Morfijino
9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli 174
Sebastian Torres
10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince 190
Tania Rispoli
Part 3: Politics, Religion, and Prophecy
11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief 207
Thomas Berns
12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion 219
Fabio Frosini
13 âUno Mero Esecutoreâ: Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince 237
Warren Montag
14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence 250
Miguel Vatter
Part 4: Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism
15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction 273
Jeremie Barthas
16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising 306
Yves Winter
17 Machiavelliâs Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer 337
John P. McCormick
18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelliâs Epistemology 349
Etienne Balibar
19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelliâs Political Topography 368
Stefano Visentin
Part 5: Machiavelli and Marxism
20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist â Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusserâs âAleatoryâ Interpretation of The Prince 393
Mikko Lahtinen
21 Lectures machiavéliennes dâAlthusser 406
Mohamed Moulfiji
22 Machiavelli after Althusser 420
Banu Bargu
23 Gramsciâs Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince 440
Peter D. Thomas
Index 457
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Part 1: Language, Text and Context of The Prince
1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani 23
Jean-Louis Fournel
2 âUno piccolo donoâ: A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelliâs The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations 39
Jean-Claude Zancarini
3 Of âExtravagantâ Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX 56
Romain Descendre
4 âItaliaâ come spazio politico in Machiavelli 73
Giorgio Inglese
5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War 81
Gabriele Pedulla
Part 2: Machiavelli and Philosophy
6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelliâs Ethics 105
Alison Brown
7 Corpora Caeca : Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince 128
Jacques Lezra
8 The Five Theses of Machiavelliâs âPhilosophyâ 144
Vittorio Morfijino
9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli 174
Sebastian Torres
10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince 190
Tania Rispoli
Part 3: Politics, Religion, and Prophecy
11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief 207
Thomas Berns
12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion 219
Fabio Frosini
13 âUno Mero Esecutoreâ: Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince 237
Warren Montag
14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence 250
Miguel Vatter
Part 4: Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism
15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction 273
Jeremie Barthas
16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising 306
Yves Winter
17 Machiavelliâs Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer 337
John P. McCormick
18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelliâs Epistemology 349
Etienne Balibar
19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelliâs Political Topography 368
Stefano Visentin
Part 5: Machiavelli and Marxism
20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist â Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusserâs âAleatoryâ Interpretation of The Prince 393
Mikko Lahtinen
21 Lectures machiavéliennes dâAlthusser 406
Mohamed Moulfiji
22 Machiavelli after Althusser 420
Banu Bargu
23 Gramsciâs Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince 440
Peter D. Thomas
Index 457
All interested in Machiavelliâs thought, history of political thought, and Marxism, political theory, early modern history and the Renaissance, particularly MA and advanced BA students, PhD and post-doc students, as well as scholars.