Maquiavel, ou o mais longo desvio: Acontecimento, Encontro e Materialismo na filosofia do último Althusser

This paper intends to outline a reading of a theory of the event in the “last Althusser” based in two texts of capital importance in the group of his phostumous works: Machiavel et nous (1972-1986) e Le courant souterrain du matérialisme de la rencontre (1982). In the first text, Althusser analyses the thought of the Florentine secretary reflecting about a theory of praxis of the political transformation, while in the second essay, he seeks to undertake the task to build a genealogical stream of materialism where the primacy of the encounter replaces the teleology of dialetic materialism. Based in these writings, we would like to seek a compositive read of these two essays in order to perceive if we can read on the althusserian ontology of the encounter and in the interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought a theory of the event.