Reading Machiavelli - Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, Virtue of Populist Politics

Zusatztext "This analysis should be essential to any comprehensive treatment of the Florentine's thought." ---R. Heineman! Choice Informationen zum Autor John P. McCormick is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His books include Weimar Thought (Princeton) and Machiavellian Democracy . Klappentext To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccolo Machiavelli's Zusammenfassung To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccolo Machiavelli's

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• Authors: John P. McCormick, McCormick John P.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2018
• EAN: 9780691183503
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18350-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600