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Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom

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Hardcover | 30 November 2000

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Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. Machiavelli changed the terms of freedom, requiring that its discourse address the demand for no-rule or non-domination. Political freedom would then develop only through a strategy of antagonism to every form of legitimate domination. This leads to the emergence of modern political life: any institution that wishes to rule legitimately must simultaneously be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminent subversion. For Machiavelli, the possibility of instituting the political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in an event of political revolution.
This book shows Machiavelli as a philosopher of the modern condition. For him, politics exists in the absence of those absolute moral standards that are called upon to legitimate the domination of man over man. If this understanding lies open to relativism and historicism, it does so in order to render effective the project of reinventing the sense of human freedom. Machiavelli's legacy to modernity is the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Priority of Event over Form in Machiavelli's Discourse
The Form of the State - on Beginnings
Introduction. The State as Historical Construction in Machiavelli	p. 27
The Priority of Form over Event in the Ancients	p. 37
The Natural Origin of Political Form: the Circle of Constitutions	p. 51
The Religious Origin of Political Form: the System of Authority	p. 63
The Free Origin of Political Form: from the Principle of Law to the Discord of Principles	p. 83
The Topology of Political Freedom	p. 99
The Corruption of Political Freedom: The Modern State as Civil Prince	p. 113
Machiavelli's Theory of History: Modes of Encounter between Action and Time
Introduction. Machiavelli and Modern Historical Consciousness	p. 133
The Encounter of Action and Times as Explanation of Fortuna	p. 137
From Action as Correspondence with the Times to Action as Changing the Times	p. 149
History as Effect of Free Action: Fortuna and Virtu in The Prince	p. 167
The People as Subject Matter of History: Fortuna and Virtu in the Discourses on Livy	p. 195
The Event of the Republic - the Return to Beginnings
Introduction. Return to Beginnings as Formula for the Historicity of Freedom	p. 219
The Aporetic Foundation of Political Freedom	p. 221
The Theory of Return to Beginnings	p. 237
The Revolutionary Event: Theory of Political Change	p. 265
Theory of Citizenship and Ethically-Contradictory Action	p. 277
The Machiavellian Legacy: Origin and Outcomes of the Conflict Between Politics and Morality in Modernity	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 339
Index of Names	p. 351
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