Edinburgh University Press
Machiavellian Ontology
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About this book
The twentieth century was the century of the deconstruction of all absolutes: of liberation understood as a critique of every meaningful structure. In this sense, conflict was understood as an instrument of the rupture of every form, institution and community. Niccolò Machiavelli is the first in our tradition to think about the productivity of political conflict – its capacity, on the model of ancient Rome, to construct new orders, institutions and forms of life. Francesco Marchesi offers an original reading of Machiavellian thought as well as a critique of some of the most influential contemporary theories of conflict including Foucault, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan and Althusser. In doing so, he proposes an innovative, conflictual political ontology that, with Machiavelli, is capable of conceiving the affirmative, and not only deconstructive, power of conflict.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Geometry of Conflict
1 - Part 1 Symmetrical Conflict – The Military Model
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1 Foucault’s Genealogy
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2 Schmitt: Conflict as Enmity
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3 Arendt: Competition and Distinction
71 - Part 2 Asymmetrical Conflict – The Psychic Model
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4 Lacanian Suture
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5 Althusser’s Overdetermination
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6 Laclau and Mouffe: Antagonism and Equivalence
152 - Part 3 Machiavellian Ontology
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7 Three ‘Ontologically Oriented’ Concepts: Inimicizie, Ordini, Riscontro
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8 Neither Monistic, nor Dualistic, nor Pluralistic: A Mixed Ontology
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9 Machiavellian Ontology and Us: Philosophical Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
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Index
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