| Machiavelli in the Making Contributor(s): Lefort, Claude (Author), Smith, Michael B. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810124378 ISBN-13: 9780810124370 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $98.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 2011036658 |
| Series: Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existen |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.80 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 moralizing 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. |