The Virtuous Collision: Chaos and Redemption in Machiavelli's Fortuna

• In Event: Classical Considerations

Brief Overview

This paper revisits Machiavelli's concept of fortuna (which I approach as a metonym for contingency), suggesting that the approach he prescribes toward it is one of 'collision' rather than domination.

Author

• Amanda Griffiths, University of California-Los Angeles