KAKO ČITATI MACHIAVELLIJEVO DJELO MIŠLJENJA? CLAUDE LEFORT I TEORIJA INTERPRETACIJE
HOW TO READ MACHIAVELLI’S WORK OF THOUGHT? CLAUDE LEFORT AND THE THEORY OF INTERPRETATION

Summary/Abstract: Claude Lefort, in the book Machiavelli in the Making (Le travail de l'oeuvre Machiavel), accompanied his interpretation of Machiavelli’s political thought with an extensive discussion related to the theory of interpretation. Although it arose from a direct engagement with Machiavelli, its conclusions are of a significantly broader nature and stand alongside the methodological instructions of other great interpreters of Florentine’s work who had their own methodological points of view, such as Leo Strauss, J. G. A. Pocock and Quentin Skinner. The central concept of Lefort’s consideration is the work of thought. In the text, it is broken down through the analysis of the relationship between three figures, the author, the reader, and the interpreter. In doing so, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, which strongly informs Lefort’s entire work, is taken as the basis for understanding the nature of their mutual interconnections.

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