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“The animal outside”: Animal ingenuity and human prudence in French Renaissance political thought
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This essay historicizes Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the “animal outside” as ingenuity by exploring early modern French polemics stemming from the humanist reception of the Machiavellian simile stating that the prince should deploy both the lion’s strength and the fox’s ingenuity. Defined in the Aristotelian corpus and valorized in Plutarch’s Moralia, ingenuity-as-prudence was a set of cognitive responses prompted by appetites and shared by humans and beasts alike. Ingenuity anchors an alterna...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 157.1KB)
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- 10.1215/10829636-7724649
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- Publisher:
- Duke University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 49
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 521-540
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-01-18
- DOI:
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1527-8263
- ISSN:
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1082-9636
- Source identifiers:
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969238
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- Duke University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 by Duke University Press. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is forthcoming online from Duke University Press
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