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Not Even a God Can Save Us Now, Volume 70 - Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger (Paperback)
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Not Even a God Can Save Us Now, Volume 70 - Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger (Paperback)
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Id
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The interplay between violence, religion, and politics is a central
problem for societies and has attracted the attention of important
philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Rene
Girard. Centuries earlier during the Italian Renaissance, these
same problems drew the interest of Niccolo Machiavelli. In Not Even
a God Can Save Us Now, Brian Harding argues that Machiavelli's work
anticipates - and often illuminates - contemporary theories on the
place of violence in our lives. While remaining cognizant of the
historical and cultural context of Machiavelli's writings, Harding
develops Machiavelli's accounts of sacrifice, truth, religion, and
violence and places them in conversation with those of more
contemporary thinkers. Including in-depth discussions of
Machiavelli's works The Prince and Discourses on Livy, as well as
his Florentine Histories, The Art of War, and other less widely
discussed works, Harding interprets Machiavelli as endorsing
sacrificial violence that founds or preserves a state, while
censuring other forms of violence. This reading clarifies a number
of obscure themes in Machiavelli's writings, and demonstrates how
similar themes are at work in the thought of recent
phenomenologists. The first book to approach both Machiavellian and
contemporary continental thought in this way, Not Even a God Can
Save Us Now is a highly original and provocative approach to both
the history of philosophy and to contemporary debates about
violence, religion, and politics.
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