Machiavelli uncovers the productive function of social conflict in
establishing a new idea of popular power and its legal institutions
whose function is to relativize the command of the state and check
the abuses of the privileged groups in society. Henceforth, every
legitimate form of government must at the same time be inscribed
with its immanent critique and imminent subversion: The possibility
of political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it
in an event of political revolution. The book argues that
Machiavelli's new understanding of political freedom presupposes a
revolutionary change in the way that history is conceived.
Machiavelli changes the paradigm of action from the classical idea
that virtue means acting in correspondence to what the times demand
to a modern idea of virtue wherein acting means going against the
times in order to effect a radical new beginning. In so doing,
Machiavelli becomes the first political philosopher of the event.
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