Reading Machiavelli : : Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics / / John P. McCormick.
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 question...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations for Machiavelli's Writings
- Introduction. Vulgarity and Virtuosity
- Part I
- 1. The Passion of Duke Valentino: Cesare Borgia, Biblical Allegory, and The Prince
- 2. "Keep the Public Rich and the Citizens Poor": Economic Inequality and Political Corruption in the Discourses
- 3. On the Myth of a Conservative Turn in the Florentine Histories
- Part II
- 4. Rousseau's Repudiation of Machiavelli's Democratic Roman Republic
- 5. Leo Strauss's Machiavelli and the Querelle between the Few and the Many
- 6. The Cambridge School's "Guicciardinian Moments" Revisited
- Summation. Scandalous Writings, Dubious Readings, and the Virtues of Popular Empowerment
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE