Machiavelli and Aristotle: anatomies of the city.

Abstract

Born in Naples in 1948, Pasquale Pasquino is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre de Theorie du Droit of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and a Global Distinguished Professor of Politics at New York University. His first degree was in classics at the University of Naples and subsequently he completed his higher degrees in political and social theory at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. Pasquino taught at various universities in several countries, at Turin, Milan, Chicago, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po) and had various visiting positions in Germany. Notably, in the 1970s he was a research assistant of Michel Foucault for his lectures on the history of political economy and the theory of the state at the College de France and became a source and authority on interpreting Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’. Subsequently his attention turned to the constitutional theories of the abbe Sieyes in the French Revolution and became one of the world’s leading experts on Sieyes.