Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli

Filippo Del Lucchese is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His research interests are in the early modern period and the history of political thought and Marxism. He has been a Marie Curie fellow and holds degrees from the universities of Pisa and Paris IV (Sorbonne). He is the author of Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum, 2009), The Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli (EUP, 2015), and Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (EUP, 2019). He has published articles in journals such as History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, Dialogue, International Studies in Philosophy, and Differences. He has taught in France, Lebanon, the United States and in the UK.

Filippo Del Lucchese provides an original interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought as well as the debates surrounding his work over four centuries. Written with clarity and elegance, this book is likely to become a classic.

• Preface; Part I: The Red Dawn of Modernity, 1: The Storm; Part II: A Political Philosophy, 2: The philosopher, 3: The Discourses on Livy, 4: The Prince, 5: History as Politics, 6: War as an art; Part III: Legacy, Reception, and Influence, 7: Authority, conflict, and the origin of the State (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries), 8: Nationalism and class conflict (nineteenth-twentieth centuries); Chronology; Notes; References; Index