Machiavelli’s The Prince
How to summarize The Prince? It begins by parsing all the different kinds of possible principalities: hereditary, won by force, one by popular elections, etc. His main concern is how Princes can attain...
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Bartelson, Jens. 1995. A Genealogy of Sovereignty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.This was a difficult book so I tried outlining it chapter by chapter: Ch. 1 – Bartelson proposes a genealogy of...
View ArticleAlthusser, Gramsci and Machiavelli – Us and Us
Debate in the geograsphere. Jon Beasley-Murray published a riff on Louis Althusser’s Machiavelli and Us saying he detects a post-hegemonic streak in Althusser’s take on Machiavelli with an emphasis on...
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