Summary
Yves Charles Zarka, Thierry Menissier: Machiavelli
The Ruler or New Political Art
In not a single period, in these 500 years of life, has Machiavelli's Ruler (written in 1512) declined in interest, which is a unique case in the history of European philosophy.
From another perspective, it can be said like this: no smaller work, no greater noise, no shorter text, no more interpretation, neither a colder approach nor a more fiery reception, neither a clearer expression nor more complicated comments, neither a more unambiguous flow nor more contradictory readings. Machiavell is experienced as the devil's teacher, or as the prince of freedom. There is no middle. And so for 500 years, without interruption (which even the wonderful Baruch de Spinoza, today more alive than ever, that lonely aristocrat of spirit who considered Machiavelli as the prince of freedom, did not succeed).
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