Acknowledgments

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Methodology
6. 1 Machiavelli and the Constellative Mode of Historical Appropriation 15
7. Part Two: Philosophical Anthropology
8. 2 The Contingency of Being: On Worldly and Human Indetermination 43
9. 3 Politics and the Human Essence: The Prince as a Model of Human Subjectivity 75
10. Part Three: Political Ontology
11. 4 Ambition and the People: The Popular Form of the Desire for Creation 131
12. 5 Social Equality and the Contingent Being of the Great 185
13. 6 Institutionalizing Ambitious Expression: The Republic as the Self-Overcoming Regime 217
14. Works Cited 275
15. Index 301