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Machiavel

Nicolas Machiavel · Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527) · 1469–1527

Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 1 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats Machiavelli as a typical figure of the Renaissance12. What he mainly retains is a shift: with him, the relation of man to man becomes the essential relation and takes the place of the relation to God3. The relationship between human beings, and politics, then become fundamental4. He comes back to this point several times, from 2016 to 2020, in sessions devoted to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit, where he presents Hegel as Machiavelli's first modern reader13. Elsewhere, he cites Machiavelli on lying in politics5. Speaking about Adotevi and Négritude et négrologues, he relates an anecdote: Sankara borrows all of Adotevi's Machiavellis6. In 2023, Machiavelli appears only in a list of Renaissance figures2. The passages remain brief: he does not read any work by Machiavelli closely and uses him mainly as a historical landmark in the move toward a way of thinking centred on the human and the political.

  1. 1Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 46:29
  2. 2Dominique Pagani : De la débauche du sens à l'orgie du sentiment29 May 2023 · 1:02:30
  3. 3La Phénoménologie de L'esprit2 Jul 2018 · 1:01:44
  4. 4Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 18:25
  5. 5Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 2e partie16 Jan 2021 · 7:35
  6. 6Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017 · 51:15

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Portrait: MachiavelWho is this?

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. […]

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