Machiavelli's Virtue

AbbreviationsPreface1: Machiavelli's Virtue 2: Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities 3: Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics4: Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress5: An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories6: Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories7: An Introduction to The Prince8: An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War9: Strauss's Machiavelli10: Machiavelli's New Regime11: Machiavelli's Political Science 12: Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State 13: Machiavelli and the Modern ExecutiveNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Machiavelli's Virtue and has translated The Prince, Discourses on Livy (with Nathan Tarcov), and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (with Delba Winthrop), all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

Uniting 30 years of scholarship, this book is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. It reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly and the ultimately partisan character of his project.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey C Mansfield, Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvey C. (Harvard University) Mansfield, Harvey Claflin Mansfield
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.1998
• EAN: 9780226503691
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50369-1
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 511 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education