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Machiavelli's The Prince: Utopia And Dystopia, Lea Yonago
Machiavelli's The Prince: Utopia And Dystopia, Lea Yonago
Young Historians Conference
Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince is regarded as one of the first works of political realism, a text that put power and pragmatism before all else. I speculate that Machiavelli took absolutism as a point of departure because he was attempting to regain Medici favor. However, his commitment to a prince and its corresponding praxis exemplifies the power of utopia. Along the lines of Lezsek Kolakowski, “utopia” here refers to a state of social consciousness that is an inevitable product of developing historical conditions. Without utopias, there could be no social subject which processes and shapes the world. Antonio Gramsci would …
Turning Seventy, Rowan Cahill
Turning Seventy, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
The author's ruminations on the occasion of him reaching the age of 70 years old.