but rather to the truth of the possibility for the virtuous actor to generate new political realities – events through the critical analysis of worldly potential. In the words of Barbara Godorecci, – the expresses a of truth whose identity is tied to the event verità effettuale “conception (‘lo evento della to the process of living that is a constant becoming. In practical terms, cosa’), Machiavellian rejects programming, if by one intends a verità effettuale ‘program’ goal to be achieved by pre-established methods (a rejection, therefore, of any specific form of To recognize the is to recognize the contextual verità effettuale methodology).” situation of your action within a non-teleological historical stream which you act into and which acts upon you, such interaction producing a multiplicity of unforeseeable and undetermined events. In order to articulate such singularities, to further highlight the political significance of historical events, Machiavelli theoretically pushes them to their most extreme points. For are timeless constellations, and by virtue of the being seen as points Benjamin “Ideas elements’ in such constellations, phenomena are subdivided and at the same time redeemed; so that those elements which it is the function of the concept to elicit from phenomena are most clearly evident at the It is thus that concept has its roots in the extremes.” “The extreme.” much noted method of exaggeration can here be thought in terms of a form of Machiavelli’s thinking at the extreme, utilized in order to affirm the capacity to initiate the new: rule of “a method, to think at the extremes, at the limits, and the application of this rule to the problem of how to begin in politics, or, if one prefers, to the problem of the new in history: the truly new is that which has no precedent and no legacy, that which is made from nothing, ex nihilo – therefore that which, in the strict sense of the word, is creation as a consequence, the founder – as Machiavelli pushes to the extreme his ancient sources in order to affirm the creator.”
but rather to the truth of the possibility for the virtuous actor to generate new political realities – events – through the critical analysis of worldly potential. In the words of Barbara Godorecci, the verità effettuale expresses a “conception of truth whose identity is tied to the event (‘lo evento della cosa’), to the process of living that is a constant becoming. In practical terms, Machiavellian verità effettuale rejects programming, if by ‘program’ one intends a goal to be achieved by pre-established methods (a rejection, therefore, of any specific form of methodology).” To recognize the verità effettuale is to recognize the contextual situation of your action within a non-teleological historical stream which you act into and which acts upon you, such interaction producing a multiplicity of unforeseeable and undetermined events. In order to articulate such singularities, to further highlight the political significance of historical events, Machiavelli theoretically pushes them to their most extreme points. For Benjamin “Ideas are timeless constellations, and by virtue of the elements’ being seen as points in such constellations, phenomena are subdivided and at the same time redeemed; so that those elements which it is the function of the concept to elicit from phenomena are most clearly evident at the extremes.” It is thus that “The concept has its roots in the extreme.” Machiavelli’s much noted method of exaggeration can here be thought in terms of a form of thinking at the extreme, utilized in order to affirm the capacity to initiate the new: “a rule of method, to think at the extremes, at the limits, and the application of this rule to the problem of how to begin in politics, or, if one prefers, to the problem of the new in history: the truly new is that which has no precedent and no legacy, that which is made from nothing, ex nihilo – therefore that which, in the strict sense of the word, is creation – as a consequence, the founder as creator.” Machiavelli pushes to the extreme his ancient sources in order to affirm the