Imitation and Politics in Machiavelli

Abstract

This work seeks to review Machiavelli’s theory of representation. In this montage the political link is constituted, in which Machiavelli thinks of a theatrical dimension. When the classic centrality of political publicity is revisited, demeaning the actor’s figure, without the supposition of a certain substantive reality. Political knowledge in Machiavelli is to know how to publically mount a certain scene as it is to note that someone else is imitating. This doesn’t hide the nature, but the strategies that vary and demand to consider the possibility of a change of interest even though it deploys a similar representation as when the change in the representing doesn’t mean change in the desire that constitutes it.