Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza

Filippo Del Lucchese is Adjunct Professor and Visiting Researcher in English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College, USA, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Picardie, France.

"Filippo Del Lucchese illuminates the axis of political philosophy that links Machiavelli to Spinoza through wonderfully rich and original readings of their texts. In the process he demonstrates that the Machiavelli-Spinoza axis provide a powerful alternative to dominant notions of European modernity: a vision of political life based not on contract and unity but on conflict and multiplicity." - Michael Hardt, Duke University, USA, co-author of Empire and Multitude

• Introduction 1. Realismi. The sky, the Sun, the Elements, Man: Necessity and Occasion in the Realism of Machiavelli and Spinoza ii. 'Freedom' and the 'Common Good', or, in other words, Tyranny 2. Conflict i. Spoliatis Arma Supersunt, Furor Arma Ministrat: Philosophy as Resistance ii. Jerusalem and Rome iii. Iustitia and Army 3. Multitude i. Quid Corpus Possit Nemo Hucusque Determinavit: the Spinozist 'war cry' ii. Individual Multiple Being Bibliography