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Demonstrates flattery's importance for political theory, addressing representation, republicanism, and rhetoric through classical, early modern, and eighteenth-century thought.
Sommario
Introduction; 1. 'Suffer no man to be king': friendship, liberty, and status in Roman political thought; 2. Without 'superfluous ornament': Castiglione, Machiavelli, and the performance of counsel; 3. 'The Monarch's plague': the problem of flattery and Hobbes's contingently unitary sovereign; 4. 'The bewitching engine': Mandeville and Smith on flattery, praise, and the origins of language; 5. 'Flattering to young ambitious minds': representing America in the ratification; Conclusion.
Info autore
Daniel J. Kapust is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Affiliated with the Departments of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, and the Centers for Early Modern Studies and European Studies, he has published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and Political Studies. His first book, Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus (Cambridge), was published in 2011, and he co-edited Comparative Political Theory in Time and Place (2016).
Riassunto
This book focuses on a key topic in the history of political thought: flattery. Enriching contemporary discussions of rhetoric, democratic theory, republicanism, and representation, it discusses Cicero, Pliny, Castiglione, Hobbes, Mandeville, Smith, and the Federalist Papers, while engaging scholarship from classics, political theory, history, and rhetoric.
