Machiavelli and Us

"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people''s," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx''s early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the �cole Normale Sup�rieure in 1972, intermittently revis...