The Radical Machiavelli ― Politics, Philosophy, and Language

Machiavelli beyond Republicanism: Politics, Philosophy, and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society.

Filippo Del Lucchese is senior lecturer in History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London, senior research associate, University of Johannesburg, and chair at the College International de Philosophie in Paris. His research interests are in the early modern period (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), history of philosophy and Marxism.Fabio Frosini is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the University of Urbino. His research interests include Renaissance philosophy and culture, Marxist thought, and political philosophy. His most recent books areDa Gramsci a Marx: Ideologia, verita e politica (DeriveApprodi, 2009), La religione dell’uomo moderno: Verita e politica nei Quaderni del carcere di Antonio Gramsci (Carocci, 2010) andVita, tempo e linguaggio (1508–1510): Lettura Vinciana (Giunti , 2011). Vittorio Morfino is a lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the Universita di Milano-Bicocca and has been visiting professor at the USP (Sao Paulo) and at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is the author ofIl tempo e l'occasione: L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli (LED, 2002, Paris 2012),Incursioni spinoziste (Mimesis, 2002) as well as recently published the English volume,Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014).