Author | Vatter, Miguel E. author |
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Title | Between form and Event [electronic resource] : Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom / by Miguel E. Vatter |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9337-3 |
Descript | XI, 355 p. online resource |
The Priority of Event over Form in Machiavelli's Discourse -- 1: The Form of the State โ on Beginnings -- 1. The Priority of Form over Event in the Ancients -- 2. The Natural Origin of Political Form: the Circle of Constitutions -- 3. The Religious Origin of Political Form: the System of Authority -- 4. The Free Origin of Political Form: from the Principle of Law to the Discord of Principles -- 5. The Topology of Political Freedom -- 6. The Corruption of Political Freedom: The Modem State as Civil Prince -- 2: Machiavelli's Theory of History: Modes of Encounter between Action and Time -- 1. The Encounter of Action and Times as Explanation of Fortuna -- 2. From Action as Correspondence with the Times to Action as Changing the Times -- 3. History as Effect of Free Action: Fortuna and Virtรน in The Prince -- 4. The People as Subject Matter of History: Fortuna and Virtรน in the Discourses on Livy -- 3: The Event of the Republic โ The Return to Beginnings -- 1. The Aporetic Foundation of Political Freedom -- 2. The Theory of Return to Beginnings -- 3. The Revolutionary Event: Theory of Political Change -- 4. Theory of Citizenship and Ethically-Contradictory Action -- Conclusion The Machiavellian Legacy: Origin and Outcomes of the Conflict Between Politics and Morality in Modernity -- Index of Names