Никколо Макиавелли и «тайное» знание Возрождения: Как Государь может «уподобиться» льву и лисе?

Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз. 2015. Т. 77. № 2. С. 80–97.

Rudnev Y.

Niccolo Machiavelli is considered to be one of the first thinkers who laid foundations of the “realist” approach inherent in the political theory of Modernity. However this study based on the contextualist approach of intellectual history demonstrates an alternative view. Analyzing several concepts of the language of “The Prince” that very likely allude to the traditions of humoral medicine, astrology, sympathetic magic and alchemy, I argue that in concern to “fox” and “lion” Machiavelli presumes not the imitation of their qualities, but rather elaborate “secret” doctrine or even “technique of the self” in Michel Foucault’s sense. According to my conclusion, “lion” and “fox” are images that a potential reader should have grasped exactly through the interplay of contexts (either more evident or “secret”) that he belonged to as a man of the Renaissance. 

Keywords: Макиавелли, Государь, Machiavelli, Макиавелли рецепция, The Prince, Renaissance Episteme, Techniques of the Self, ренессансная эпистема, техника себя

Publication based on the results of: Историческая саморефлексия медицины: от ars medica раннего Нового времени к позитивистскому «онаучиванию» (2015)