“The animal outside”: Animal ingenuity and human prudence in French Renaissance political thought
This essay historicizes Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the “animal outside” as ingenuity by exploring early modern French polemics stemming from the humanist reception of the Machiavellian simile stating that the prince should deploy both the lion’s strength and the fox’s ingenuity. Defined in the Aris...
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Duke University Press
2019
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