Presenting a detailed reinterpretation and reconstruction of the
political thought of Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli and the
Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of
Machiavelli's texts to develop a new theoretical model of
democratic practice. The book critically and creatively juxtaposes
certain concepts drawn from Machiavelli's work in order to produce
new political insights. Christopher Holman identifies two unique
ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian
concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image
of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the
exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn
primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the
democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for
creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able
to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their
equal access to political institutions and orders. Such
institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media
for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be
arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and
refinement. In the final instance, a new ethical ground for the
normative defense of democratic life is constructed, one grounded
in the orientation of individual beings toward novelty and
innovation.
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