The Organized Affectivity. From Machiavelli's theory of war to Laclau's theory of populism
Abstract
The work analyzes the status of affects in the processes of political subjectivation, focusing on the debate on populism and on the work of Ernesto Laclau. In order to do this, it brings into play the theory of modern warfare by Niccolò Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz by establishing, simultaneously, a more complete understanding of the role of affections in the development of a group or political unit. However, the article analyzes why the theory of war should be part of a broader political reflection that asks, at the same time, about the affective organization and its ineradicable levels of heterogeneity. Is in this framework that Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is called on.
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