Balakrishnan, Gopal

Future Unknown

Machiavelli for the Twenty-First Century

is part of New Left Review , 32 , March-April, 2005 , pp. 5 - 21

To which thinkers should we turn in a bid to ground a new conceptualization of political agency-or to determine whether such a move has been nullified by the transformations of the last decades? Gopal Balakrishnan on Machiavelli's parables of innovation and readings of him from Rousseau to Schmitt, Strauss to Gramsci. The Florentine as strategist of beginning anew, in the context of historic defeat.
Also available on the web: http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2551 or in pdf format http://www.newleftreview.org/?getpdf=NLR26601&pdflang=en (Accessed October 5, 2008)

Language	eng
Names	[author] Balakrishnan, Gopal
Subjects	Machiavelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, Niccolò