Μachiavellian Moments in Perspective
Athens, 16-17 May 2019
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Department of Politics and History
Machiavelli’s imago, as depicted in political thought, has been a contested issue throughout modernity, sometimes regardless of his work in itself. Ever since the 16th century, most political thinkers of consequence felt obliged to measure up to Machiavelli or "machiavellianism" at one point or another, in encounters that were often defining moments in the development of their own thought, or could be construed as such retrospectively.
Productive engagements with Machiavelli’s legacy multiplied in the short, albeit politically dense, 20th century, as his groundbreaking reflections on politics provided an effective springboard to counter the positivism and reductionism that, for much of the century, swayed political science and political theory alike, or, alternatively, to reassess the humanist and republican sources of modernity. To name but a few, theorists variously associated with Marxism such as Gramsci, Horkheimer, Merleau-Ponty, Althusser or Lefort, maverick political philosophers such as Strauss and Arendt, as well as innovative historians of ideas such as Pocock and Skinner, chose Machiavelli as a privileged interlocutor in their attempt to think through the political aporias of the time.
The conference focuses on the ways Machiavelli was read in the 20th century, with the aim of picking up the thread of humanism in the 21st century.
Suggested topics
Phenomenality in politics: disegno, memory, the visible and the invisible
Time and occasion, rupture and continuance
Violence, foundation and restoration
Desire and politics
Discord, conflict and pluralism
Autonomy of politics
Liberty and domination
Hegemony
Important information and dates
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract (max. 250 words) for a twenty-minute presentation by November 25, 2018 (including name, eventual institutional affiliation, a short cv and email address). Applicants will be notified by January 25, 2019.
The conference languages will be Greek, French and English, but simultaneous translation will not be provided.
Email:machiavelliconf@gmail.com
Website:https://machiavelliconf.blogspot.com/
Organizing committee: Chrysanthi Avlami, Georges Faraklas, Vicky Iakovou, Marilena Karra, Georges Papageorgiou, Sotiris Siamandouras
Coordinator: Sotiris Siamandouras
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