Not even a God can save us now

Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger

Brian Harding

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Series | 70

McGill-Queen's University Press

2017

Abstract

The interplay between violence, religion, and politics is a central problem for societies and has attracted the attention of important philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and René Girard. Centuries earlier during the Italian Renaissance, these same problems drew the interest of Niccolò Machiavelli.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin

Machiavelli Nicolo