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In Machiavelli and Us, a giant of French philosophy reveals the vital `materialism of the encounter' at the centre of Machiavelli's thought. The unsettled utopianism of The Prince and The Discourses returns through Althusser's reading as a challenge to contemporary political theory. Marx and Gramsci are called upon to augment Machiavelli's visions of state and popular will, which alongside a robust account of ideology shed light on both Althusser and his early modern double.
`Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity ...an explosive expression of the vision of revolutionary materialism.'---Antonio Negri
“Althusser, poised between modernism andpostmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between theMiddle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.