Politics of Immanence. From Marx to Machiavelli and back
In: Shift. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018
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The term ‘immanence’ does not have a univocal meaning in the Western philosophical tradition; it is a term that blinds more than it enlightens, and which has its sole point of transparency in the clear opposition to the term ‘transcendence’. In addition to this equivocality there is the ambiguity of the expression ‘politics of immanence’: these result from the position of a plan of immanence, or from the set of politics that can be implemented within it. If in the second case – as we shall see – the use of the plural is justified, in the first case the singular should be used, meaning that, given the immanence, it follows a politics (the plural would be open only by the equivocality of the term immanence, so we would have as many set of politics as many different meanings of the term immanence from which they could be deduced).
Keywords: Machiavelli, Spinoza, Marx, Negri, Democracy