Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the
Florentine's work and a critical document for understanding
influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort's
later writings on democracy and totalitarianism. Lefort extricates
Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of him as
the founder of "objective" political science, which, having
liberated itself from the religious and moralizing tendencies of
medieval political reflection, attempts to arrive at a realistic
discourse on the operations of raw power. Lefort ultimately finds
that Machiavelli's discourse opens the "place of the political"
which had previously been occupied by theology and morality.
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