The Political Logic of Conflict. A Debate on Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà. Introduction

Abstract

This section of the issue offers a debate on G. Pedullà’s Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism (Cambridge 2018). Its ambition is to bring together textual and philological analysis that is «internal» to the great fabric of Machiavellian exegesis, alongside theoretical-political questioning «external» to that fabric. The main objective is to offer a new image of Machiavelli as an author who breaks with a long and authoritative tradition, one which exalted concord as an absolute political value, and to inaugurate a new way of observing political and social phenomena. The book is discussed by A. Brown, J. Hankins, J. Mc-Cormick, and N. Urbinati