Radical Machiavelli

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).

"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)

• List of Figures viiiList of Contributors ix Introduction 1Part 1: Language, Text and Context of The Prince1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani 23Jean-Louis Fournel2 ‘Uno piccolo dono’: A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations 39Jean-Claude Zancarini3 Of ‘Extravagant’ Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX 56Romain Descendre4 ‘Italia’ come spazio politico in Machiavelli 73Giorgio Inglese5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War 81Gabriele PedullaPart 2: Machiavelli and Philosophy6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli’s Ethics 105Alison Brown7 Corpora Caeca : Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince 128Jacques Lezra8 The Five Theses of Machiavelli’s ‘Philosophy’ 144Vittorio Morfijino9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli 174Sebastian Torres10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince 190Tania RispoliPart 3: Politics, Religion, and Prophecy11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief 207Thomas Berns12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion 219Fabio Frosini13 ‘Uno Mero Esecutore’: Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince 237Warren Montag14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence 250Miguel VatterPart 4: Radical Democracy beyond Republicanism15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction 273Jeremie Barthas16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising 306Yves Winter17 Machiavelli’s Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer 337John P. McCormick18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli’s Epistemology 349Etienne Balibar19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli’s Political Topography 368Stefano VisentinPart 5: Machiavelli and Marxism20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser’s ‘Aleatory’ Interpretation of The Prince 393Mikko Lahtinen21 Lectures machiavéliennes d’Althusser 406Mohamed Moulfiji22 Machiavelli after Althusser 420Banu Bargu23 Gramsci’s Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince 440Peter D. ThomasIndex 457