| Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom Contributor(s): Vatter, Miguel (Author), Author, The (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0823255948 ISBN-13: 9780823255948 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 323.440 |
| LCCN: 2013954280 |
| Series: Commonalities |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 360 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Machiavelli uncovers the productive function of social conflict in establishing a new idea of popular power and its legal institutions whose function is to relativize the command of the state and check the abuses of the privileged groups in society. Henceforth, every legitimate form of government must at the same time be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminent subversion: The possibility of political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in an event of political revolution. The book argues that Machiavelli's new understanding of political freedom presupposes a revolutionary change in the way that history is conceived. Machiavelli changes the paradigm of action from the classical idea that virtue means acting in correspondence to what the times demand to a modern idea of virtue wherein acting means going against the times in order to effect a radical new beginning. In so doing, Machiavelli becomes the first political philosopher of the event. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vatter, Miguel: - Miguel Vatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the editor of Crediting God: Religion and Sovereignty in the Age of Global Capitalism (New York, 2010) and author of The Republic of the Living: Affirmative Biopolitics and Civil Society (New York, 2014). He is a founding member of the biopolitics research network BioPolitica.cl. |