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READING MACHIAVELLI IBD

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
12 / 2020
9780691211541
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Sinopsis

A new reading of Machiavelli?s major works that demonstrates how he has been previously misreadTo what extent was Niccolò 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 Machiavelli?s three major political works-The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine Histories-and demonstrates that a radically democratic populism seeded the Florentine?s scandalous writings. John McCormick challenges the misguided understandings of Machiavelli set forth by prominent thinkers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and representatives of the Straussian and Cambridge schools, and he emphasizes the fundamental, often unacknowledged elements of a vibrant Machiavellian politics. Advancing fresh readings of Machiavelli?s work, this book presents a new outlook on how politics should be conceptualized and practiced.

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