Machiavelli in the Making

by Claude Lefort

Book Overview

Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the Florentine's work and a critical document for understanding influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort's later writings on democracy and totalitarianism. Lefort extricates Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of him as the founder of "objective" political science, which, having liberated itself from the religious and moralizing tendencies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124386
• ISBN13: 9780810124387
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"