Althusser and his reading of Machiavelli: Ideology, Republic, and Democracy
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2021.65.05Keywords:
Democracy, Republicanism, Political philosophy, Ideology, L. Althusser, N. MachiavelliAbstract
This article seeks to problematise the opposition between democracy and republic that is at the foundation of political philosophy. Following this horizon, firstly, it explores the reason that allows political thought, on the one hand, to recognise the merit of democracy as the founding act of a republic, but, on the other, to ignore its role within already founded political bodies. Secondly, and with the help of Louis Althusser’s perspective, it is suggested that this ambiguous and paradoxical role of democracy can be interpreted from a mystifying way of understanding ideology that is present in the most hegemonic political philosophies. Finally, it is proposed to approach the relationship between democracy and the body politic from Althusser’s reading of Machiavelli in his text Machiavelli and Us.
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