Revista Filosofía UIS

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): July - December
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Claude Lefort and the Origins of Modern Republicanism. The Birth of Ideology

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  • Helton Adverse
Helton Adverse
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/CNPq, Brasil
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revfil.v24n2-2025004

Published 2025-03-29

Keywords

  • republicanism,
  • Lefort,
  • Machiavelli,
  • ideology

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Adverse, H. (2025). Claude Lefort and the Origins of Modern Republicanism. The Birth of Ideology. Revista Filosofía UIS, 24(2), 79–97. https://doi.org/10.18273/revfil.v24n2-2025004

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to show that Claude Lefort's critique of ideology is relevant to republican thought. As a rule, Lefort's relationship with republicanism gravitates around his interpretation of Machiavelli's conflict theory, which seems to us perfectly justified. However, we believe that it is equally necessary, in order to better understand Lefort's contribution to republicanism, to remember that his reading of Machiavelli also includes a critique of what he called the 'Florentine ideology', understood as the discourse that aims to conceal social division - spreading the image of a harmonious city - and difference in time - claiming full continuity between Florence and Rome.

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