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Politics and philosophy : Niccolo Machiavelli and Louis Althusser's aleatory materialism /

The main argument of the book is that for French philosopher Louis Althusser it was essential to reflect on how the conjunctural understanding of history and reality could offer a theoretical starting point for a subversive political strategy and intervention.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lahtinen, Mikko
Otros Autores: Griffiths, Gareth, Kölhi, Kristina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Finnish
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2009.
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Author's Preface to the English Edition
  • Chapter One
  • Introductory Comments
  • 1.1. Althusser, Machiavelli and political theory
  • 1.2. Althusser's contribution to Machiavelli scholarship
  • 1.2.1. The general and the particular
  • 1.2.2. The political praxis of a prince
  • 1.2.3. Aleatory dynamics
  • 1.2.4. 'Verità effettuale della cosa' : 'The effective truth'
  • 1.2.5. Morals and politics
  • 1.2.6. Materialist political theory
  • 1.3. The approach of the present study
  • Chapter Two
  • A Critique of Hegelianism
  • 2.1. A Critique of Hegelian dialectics
  • 2.2. Althusser's Marxism
  • 2.2.1. Overdetermination and underdetermination
  • The 'morphology' of the over- and underdetermination of contradictions
  • The reality of contradictions
  • Displacements and condensations in ideological apparatuses : ideological apparatuses as the displacements and condensations of contradictions
  • The metaphoric nature of the topographic
  • Russia 1917
  • 2.2.2. Summary: complexity and chaos
  • 2.2.3. Engels and individual will
  • The individual will
  • 2.3. Althusser's self-criticism
  • 2.3.1. Elliott's theoreticist interpretation of Althusser
  • 2.4. The 'Machiavellian' Lenin
  • 2.4.1. Towards a theoreticisation of practice
  • Chapter Three
  • Aleatory Materialism
  • 3.1. Prologue: Machiavelli's solitude
  • 3.2. The underground current of the materialism of the encounter
  • 3.2.1. Law
  • 3.2.2. Surprises
  • Chapter Four
  • Althusser's Aleatory Machiavelli
  • 4.1. A preliminary schema: the two dimensions of Machiavelli's differentiae specificae
  • 4.1.1. 'Theoretical' differentia specifica
  • 4.1.2. 'Political' differentia specifica
  • 4.2. Machiavelli's differentia specifica in the history of political thought
  • 4.2.1. Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Aristotle
  • 4.3. The praxis of The Prince : the text as a political act
  • 4.3.1. Machiavelli's utopianism
  • 4.4. The praxis of the prince : the aleatory truth
  • 4.4.1. The aleatory of the 'subjective' and 'objective'
  • 4.4.2. Beyond the aleatory of the 'subjective' and 'objective'
  • 4.5. The praxis of the prince: the project and strategy of the new prince
  • 4.5.1. Machiavelli and Polybius
  • 4.5.2. The conditions for the political project and strategy of the new prince
  • 4.5.3. The lawless hero
  • 4.5.4. A popular ideological figure
  • 4.5.5. The dialectic of the interests of the prince and the people
  • 4.5.6. The state and the law
  • 4.6. Epilogue: Althusser's interpretation of Machiavelli
  • Chapter Five
  • The Subversive Machiavelli
  • 5.1. The art of war and the art of politics
  • 5.2. The destructive current of fortuna
  • 5.2.1. The actor's prudence
  • 5.3. The aspects of fortuna
  • 5.3.1. Kronos and Kairos
  • 5.4. Lady Fortuna and the youngmen
  • 5.5. The rise and fall of Cesare Borgia
  • 5.5.1. Cesare's misfortune
  • 5.6. 'A stable people'
  • 5.6.1. 'A people' and a 'nation' in the context and terminology of the early cinquecento
  • 5.6.2. Machiavelli in the Florentine context
  • 5.6.3. 'Utopian' texts
  • 5.7. Epilogue: Machiavelli and the taming of chance
  • Chapter Six
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.