期刊全称 | Between Form and Event: Machiavelli‘s Theory of Political Freedom | 影响因子2023 | Miguel E. Vatter | 视频video | | 学科分类 | Topoi Library | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as aproblem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled.Machiavelli changed the terms of freedom, requiring that its discourseaddress the demand for no-rule or non-domination. Political freedomwould then develop only through a strategy of antagonism to every formof legitimate domination. This leads to the emergence of modernpolitical life: any institution that wishes to rule legitimately mustsimultaneously be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminentsubversion. For Machiavelli, the possibility of instituting thepolitical form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in anevent of political revolution. .This book shows Machiavelli as a philosopher of the modern condition.For him, politics exists in the absence of those absolute moralstandards that are called upon to legitimate the domination of manover man. If this understanding lies open to relativism andhistoricism, it does so in order to render effective the project ofreinventing the sense of human freedom. Machiavelli‘s legacy tomodernity is the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between thedemands of freedom and the imperatives of morali | Pindex | Book 2000 |
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