Niccolò Machiavelli : History, Power, and Virtue.
Title:
Niccolò Machiavelli : History, Power, and Virtue.
Author:
Donskis, Leonidas.
ISBN:
9789042032781
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (127 pages)
Series:
Value Inquiry Book Series, 226
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Part One Machiavelli's Keywords: The New Political and Moral Vocabulary -- ONE: Against All the Odds: Machiavelli on Fortune in Politics -- TWO: Border-Value Morality and Semantical Coherence in Machiavelli's Prince -- THREE: Niccolò Machiavelli on Power -- FOUR: The Modern Who Believed that He Was the Ancient: Niccolò Machiavelli in European Thought and Political Imagination -- FIVE: Machiavelli and the Theory of Exemplary Constitutions -- Part Two Machiavelli and Core Issues in Modern Political Philosophy -- SIX: Virtue in Hobbes: Seen from Machiavellian Point of View -- SEVEN: Rethinking Machiavelli: Republicanism and Tolerance -- Contributors -- Index -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page.
Abstract:
This volume is an attempt to rethink Niccolò Machiavelli, one of the most challenging political thinkers in the history of European political thought. In 2013, we will mark 500 years since Machiavelli wrote his puzzling letter to Lorenzo de' Medici, Il Principe . This book is an endeavor to cover some of the most complex aspects of Machiavelli's life and work.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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