The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy, and Language

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Contents
Contents v
List of Figures viii
List of Contributors ixxvi
Introduction 1
Part 1
Language, Text and Context of The Prince
1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi
machiavelliani 23
Jean-Louis Fournel
2 ‘Uno piccolo dono’: A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of
Machiavelli’s The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French
Translations 39
Jean-Claude Zancarini
3 Of ‘Extravagant’ Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX 56
Romain Descendre
4 ‘Italia’ come spazio politico in Machiavelli 73
Giorgio Inglese
5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of
War 81
Gabriele Pedullà
Part 2
Machiavelli and Philosophy
6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli’s Ethics 105
Alison Brown
7 Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince 128
Jacques Lezra
8 The Five Theses of Machiavelli’s ‘Philosophy’ 144
Vittorio Morfino
9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli 174
Sebastián Torres
10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and
History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince 190
Tania Rispoli
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Part 3
Politics, Religion, and Prophecy
11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief 207
Thomas Berns
12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between
Politics and Religion 219
Fabio Frosini
13 ‘Uno Mero Esecutore’: Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in
The Prince 237
Warren Montag
14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence 250
Miguel Vatter
Part 4
Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism
15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy:
An Introduction 273
Jérémie Barthas
16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising 306
Yves Winter
17 Machiavelli’s Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer 337
John P. McCormick
18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in
Machiavelli’s Epistemology 349
Etienne Balibar
19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli’s Political
Topography 368
Stefano Visentin
Part 5
Machiavelli and Marxism
20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis
Althusser’s ‘Aleatory’ Interpretation of The Prince 393
Mikko Lahtinen
21 Lectures machiavéliennes d’Althusser 406
Mohamed Moulfi
Contents vii
22 Machiavelli after Althusser 420
Banu Bargu
23 Gramsci’s Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince 440
Peter D. Thomas
 Index 457
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List of Figures
2.1 Statolevel1 46
2.2 Statolevel2 46
2.3 Prince,ch.XX,25:polysemyofstato 47
2.4 Étatlevel1 48
2.5 Payslevel1 48
2.6 Seigneurielevel1 49
2.7 Dominio 49
2.8 Imperio 50
2.9 Principato 50
2.10 Prince,ch.IV,15 53
5.1 Eliano,De’nomiedegliordinimilitari,translatedbyDiegoCarani,Firenze,
Firenze,LorenzoTorrentino,1522 89
5.2 Eliano,De’nomiedegliordinimilitari,translatedbyDiegoCarani,Firenze,
LorenzoTorrentino,1522 90
5.3 BattistaDellaValle,Vallo,Venezia,EredidiPieroRavano,1543 92
5.4 BattistaDellaValle,Vallo,Venezia,EredidiPieroRauano,1543 94
ListofCLoisnttroifbuCtoonrtsributors ix
List of Contributors
Etienne Balibar
isemeritusprofessor of PhilosophyattheUniversity of Paris-Nanterre,andAn-
niversary Chair of Contemporary European PhilosophyatKingston University,
London.Heisauthororco-authorofReading Capital(withLouisAlthusseret
al.1965),Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities(withImmanuelWallerstein,
Verso,1991),The Philosophy of Marx (Verso1995),Spinoza and Politics(Verso
1998),Politics and the Other Scene(Verso,2002),Identity and Difference: John
Locke and the Invention of Consciousness (Verso,2014).
Banu Bargu
isassociateprofessorofPoliticsattheNewSchoolforSocialResearch,New
York.Hermainareaofspecialisationispoliticaltheory,especiallymodernand
contemporarypoliticalthought,inconjunctionwithanthropologyandare-
gionalfocusontheMiddleEast.Herresearchinterestsincludetheoriesofsov-
ereignty,biopolitics,andresistance,aswellasaestheticsandmaterialism.She
istheauthorofonebook:Starve & Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons
(ColumbiaUniversityPress,2014),whichreceivedAPSA’sBestFirstBookPrize.
Heressayshaveappearedinjournalssuchastheory & event,diacritics,Contem-
porary Political Theory,andConstellations,aswellasvariouscollections:Polic-
ing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion(ColumbiaUP,2010),
After Secular Law(StanfordUP,2011),‘How Not to Be Governed’: Readings and
Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left(Lexington,2011),andThe Anar-
chist Turn(PlutoPress,2013).Sheiscurrentlyworkingonabook-lengthmanu-
scriptonAlthusserandaleatorymaterialism.
Jérémie Barthas
hasbeenMarie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of Lon-
don, School of History,associatedwith the Centre for the Study of the History of
Political Thought.HeiscurrentlySeniorResearcherattheCNRS–IRHiS.He
wastrainedbothinphilosophyandinhistoryandwasawardedhisPhDatthe
European University Institute (Florence). WhilefocusingonMachiavelli,his
publicationsalsoincludeworksonmedievallegalthought,thehistoryofmod-
ernheterodoxies(libertinism),thehistoryofpoliticaleconomy,financialhis-
tory,andthehistoryofpoliticalthought.Mostrecently,hehascontributedto
the Enciclopedia Machiavelliana, editedbyG.Sasso (Treccani,forthcoming).
Hisbook L’argent n’est pas le nerf de la guerre:Essai sur une prétendue erreur de
Machiavel waspublishedin2011inthe Collection de l’Ecole Française de Rome.