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Dalla statistica alla società algoritmica. Un contributo alla storia della governamentalità
No full textL’oeconomie politique di Antoine de Montchrétien tra Ragion di Stato e sovranità
Full text linkThe essay deals with the relationship between reason of state, the birth of political economy and sovereignty in Antoine de Montchrétien’s Traicté de l’oeconomie politique. This work is in fact interpreted as one of the main ramifications that the discourse on the art of governing, which contemporary authors named reason of state, took place in Europe. Therefore, I will argue that the treatise does not represent an anticipation of the future science of economics, but a specific attempt to configure an art of the government out of a reinterpretation of political Aristotelianism. When compared with the theory of sovereignty elaborated by Jean Bodin, the Traicté by Montchrétien appears to express a different political rationality, specifically oriented on developing a new art for the “government of men” within a state in the modern age
Tra ragion di Stato e mercantilismo: il Breve trattato di Antonio Serra nella Napoli del XVII secolo
No full textThe article intends to propose a reading of Antonio Serra’s Breve trattato sulle cause che possono far abbondare li regni d'oro e d'argento centred on a history of the arts of government. By reconstructing the Neapolitan debate on the causes of the monetary crisis of the early 17th century and focusing on the problem of the practices of money government, the aim of the essay is to remove Serra’s treatise from the hypothetical framework of an history of economic science and to place it in the context of the political problems of its time.L’articolo intende proporre una lettura del Breve trattato sulle cause che possono far abbondare li regni d’oro e d’argento di Antonio Serra incentrata su una storia delle arti di governo. Ricostruendo il dibattito napoletano sulle cause della crisi monetaria degli inizi del XVII secolo e focalizzando l’attenzione sul problema delle pratiche di governo della moneta, l’obiettivo del saggio è quello di sottrarre il trattato di Serra all’ipoteca di una retrospettiva sulla scienza economica per inquadrarlo all’interno dei problemi politici del proprio tempo
A Politics of Truth. Despotism and Governmentality in François Quesnay
Full text linkIn the second half of the eighteenth century, in France there was an important attempt to renew the reflection on the practices of government of society. Opposing the Colbertist mercantilism of the previous century, the physiocracy is part of this debate by introducing a new way of rationalizing the political society and its practices of government, which develops around a notion of «natural order» which prescribes full freedom for economic subjects. Thanks to the support of the “regime of truth” in the economic science, Quesnay and the physiocrats would propose an innovative form of modern “governmentality”, which in their thought is called despotisme. How can the notion of “despotism” coexist with the claim of maximum liberty for economic actors? The present article intends to answer this question, investigating the relationship that Quesnay and the physiocracy entertain with the birth of liberalism
ECONOMIA, POLITICA E GOVERNAMENTALITÀ. UN’INDAGINE SUI TRATTATI SULL’ECONOMICA NEL TARDO RINASCIMENTO ITALIANO
Full text linkIl presente articolo intende indagare alcuni trattati sull’economica cinque e seicentesca nel tentativo di evidenziare, da un punto di vista genealogico, la nascita di una nuova arte di governo, che prende il nome di economia politica. Confrontando i trattati di Giovanni Battista Assandri (Della economica overo disciplina domestica, 1616) e di Bartolomeo Frigerio (L’economo prudente, 1629) con la tradizione dell’oikonomia aristotelica ed evidenziando la loro originalità del contesto della riflessione tardo rinascimentale italiana sulle arti di governo, l’obiettivo che si intende perseguire consiste nel descrivere il momento storico a partire dal quale si verifica un’inedita convergenza tra economica e politica. Alla luce della presente indagine, la convergenza tra economica e politica, che si verifica nel solco tracciato dal discorso della ragion di Stato di Giovanni Botero, sembra configurarsi come una nuova del governo dello Stato che avrà un’importanza decisiva nella formazione della razionalità politica e della «governamentalità» moderna
Alle origini del liberalismo. Boisguilbert e la questione del commerce des grains
Full text linkBetween the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth century, in France, something decisive takes place within the texts that deal with the vexed question of the commerce des grains. This fundamental event, that would revolutionize economic thought, is the publication, in 1707, of Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert’s Traité de la nature, culture, commerce intérêt et des grains. Boisguilbert’s arguments were aimed at supporting the “liberalization” of the commerce des grains. This event, in addition to revolutionizing the grid of constituted knowledge around the economy, would help to open the way for a new form of governmentality. This article describes this event through a comparison with another text published in France in those years, the Traité de la Police by Nicolas Delamare to show how, starting with Boisguilbert, economic thought was transformed into a completely different form of rationality, anticipating what soon would be called “physiocracy”
Eterotopie. Lo spazio tra potere e sapere nell'impresa genealogica di Michel Foucault
Full text linkThroughout his long and articulate philosophical research, Michel Foucault devoted few essays and a few interviews to the theme of space as a specific object of analysis. However, we can observe how Foucault's works are studded with meticulous descriptions of spaces: from the asylum to the prison, from the hospital to the city, ending with the body as a surface for inscribing power relations. To observe with attention, therefore, the problematic of space crosses much of the intellectual production of the French philosopher, who never, however, intended to develop it into the object of a theory. The aim of this essay is to attempt to frame the theme of space in Michel Foucault's research, through a recognition of some of the multiple theoretical places in which the problematic of space comes into question in the French philosopher's thought
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