Between Form and Event : Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom Paperback / softback
by Miguel Vatter
Part of the Commonalities series
Paperback / softback
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:25/07/2014
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- ISBN:9780823255948
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:25/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780823255948
