ENTRE LA REPUBLIQUE PLATONICIENNE ET LES EXCREMENTS DE ROMULUS: AUTOPORTRAIT DE L’INTELLECTUEL DANS LA POLITIQUE DE LIPSE
BETWEEN THE PLATONIC REPUBLIC AND THE EXCREMENT OF ROMULUS: SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN THE POLICY OF LIPS

Summary/Abstract: Justus Lipsius’s Six Books of Politics is possibly the most influential early modern treatise of the art of politics. Lipsius writes against Machiavelli but draws on Tacitus, and proposes a radical brand of realism: we no longer live in Plato’s republic and must make do with «Romulus’s excrements». Through style and conception, the treatise brings to the fore an unexpected political persona: the intellectual.

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