Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In the only full-length interpretive study of Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy!" Harvey C. Mansfield provides a chapter-by-chapter commentary of this controversial and ambiguous work. Mansfield argues that Machiavelli's new modes and orders were intended to undermine the classical and Christian foundations of political philosophy and establish a new foundation not only for modern political philosophy! but for modern politics as well. This penetrating study! wrought by one of Machiavelli's foremost interpreters! uncovers the hidden intricacies of the "Discourses." It will inform and challenge its readers at every step. Zusammenfassung This interpretive study of Machiavelli's controversial and ambiguous work "Discourses on Livy". These discourses are thoroughly explained in a chapter-by-chapter commentary by Harvey C. Mansfield.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvey C. (Harvard University) Mansfield, Harvey Claflin Mansfield
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2001
• EAN: 9780226503707
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50370-7
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology