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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Finnish |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2009.
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| 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.