Machiavelli and Empire

Informationen zum Autor Mikael Hörnqvist teaches in the Department of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University in Sweden. Klappentext The political theory of Machiavelli! his characteristic preoccupations and how those came to be formed. Zusammenfassung Mikael Hornqvist's study of the political theory of Machiavelli offers an original and challenging reading of a number of celebrated texts while exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli's political vision was formed. This is an important contribution to the historiography of Machiavelli and the renaissance empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Another philosophy; 2. The Republic's two ends; 3. The natural desire of states; 4. To destroy them or to live there; 5. The triumphator; 6. Rhetoric of hope and despair; 7. Sublunar writing; Conclusion: Cui Bono?

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• Authors: Mikael H¿rnqvist, Mikael Heornqvist, Mikael (Uppsala Universitet Hoernqvist, Mikael Hornqvist, Mikael Hrnqvist
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521072168
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07216-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education