The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy, and Language

Product Description

The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society.

Review

"These papers cohere very well, often speaking to each other and sometimes disagreeing. They underscore the truism that The Prince remains a battlefield and that no consensus on it is likely ever to be reached. But these papers, with their carefully constructed arguments, extensive documentation, and nuanced evaluations, as well as their forty-seven pages of bibliography, do much to clear away old smoke."
- John H. Geerken (Scripps College, emeritus), in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXX, no. 2 (summer 2017)


About the Author

Filippo Del Lucchese is senior lecturer in History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London, senior research associate, University of Johannesburg, and chair at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. His research interests are in the early modern period (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), history of philosophy and Marxism.

Fabio Frosini is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the University of Urbino. His research interests include Renaissance philosophy and culture, Marxist thought, and political philosophy. His most recent books are Da Gramsci a Marx: Ideologia, verità e politica (DeriveApprodi, 2009), La religione dell’uomo moderno: Verità e politica nei Quaderni del carcere di Antonio Gramsci (Carocci, 2010) and Vita, tempo e linguaggio (1508–1510): Lettura Vinciana (Giunti , 2011).

Vittorio Morfino is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca and has been visiting professor at the USP (São Paulo) and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Il tempo e l'occasione: L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli (LED, 2002, Paris 2012), Incursioni spinoziste (Mimesis, 2002) as well as recently published the English volume, Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014).