The People’s Prince: Rethinking Machiavelli’s Populism

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Theories of Democracy and Society

Brief Overview

Offers a new account of Machiavelli’s populism. Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of Machiavelli's politics, I argue that if Machiavelli is indeed a populist, his brand of populism is less egalitarian than commonly assumed.

Author

• Mathis Louis Bitton, Harvard University