Machiavelli And Republicanism

Author : Gisela Bock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521435895
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli and Republicanism written by Gisela Bock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521349932
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli: The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

Author : Paul A. Rahe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448331
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy written by Paul A. Rahe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of Machiavelli's political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavelli's own republicanism and charting his influence on Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, David Hume, the Baron de Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. This work argues that while Machiavelli himself was not liberal, he did set the stage for the emergence of liberal republicanism in England. By the exponents of commercial society he provided the foundations for a moderation of commonwealth ideology and exercised considerable, if circumscribed, influence on the statesmen who founded the American Republic. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy will be of great interest to political theorists, early modern historians, and students of the American political tradition.

Author : Maurizio Viroli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414937
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Politics to Reason of State written by Maurizio Viroli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study fills a notable gap in the history of political thought.

Author : Michelle T. Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107125502
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli's Florentine Republic written by Michelle T. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are 'good'.

Author : Judith N. Shklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montesquieu written by Judith N. Shklar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over leven en werk van de Franse jurist en filosoof (1689-1755)

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book The Other Machiavelli written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Machiavelli is a unique compendium of the Florentine political thinker's writings on liberty and self-government. The selections, drawn from the Discourses and Machiavelli's other 'republican' writings, are conveniently organized on the basis of subject matter. As such, The Other Machiavelli constitutes a much-needed corrective and companion to 'The Prince.'

Author : David N. Levy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739186418
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wily Elites and Spirited Peoples in Machiavelli's Republicanism written by David N. Levy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolò Machiavelli, though best known as a teacher of princes, is also a teacher of republics. In his Discourses on Livy, he argues that republican liberty depends upon a contentious mixture of elitism and populism. Only the elite’s wily pursuit of domination, combined with the people’s spirited resistance to such domination, can produce that compromise between servitude and license known as liberty. The task of the founder and the statesman is to construct and maintain the appropriate “orders and modes” within which each party to the conflict can make its appropriate contribution. The elite, at its best, contributes prudence, military virtue, and the capacity to innovate, while the people contributes moral and political stability. David Levy explains and defends Machiavelli’s conception of liberty as conflict, and then uses that conception as the lens through which to understand his views on religion, war and imperialism, goodness and corruption, and the relation between republics and princes. Also discussed is Machiavelli’s own kind of wiliness: his artful and often ironic mode of writing. Levy shows that Machiavelli’s republican teaching as a whole remains persuasive today, and deserves careful consideration by all those concerned with the survival and the success of liberty. This book will be of interest both to beginning and more advanced students of Machiavelli, as well as to students of modern republicanism and of the history of ideas.

Author : Yves Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108580718
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence written by Yves Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolò Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious, because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of violence and shows how it challenges moral and metaphysical ideas. Winter attributes two central theses to Machiavelli: first, violence is not a generic technology of government but a strategy that tends to correlate with inequality and class conflict; and second, violence is best understood not in terms of conventional notions of law enforcement, coercion, or the proverbial 'last resort', but as performance. Most political violence is effective not because it physically compels another agent who is thus coerced; rather, it produces political effects by appealing to an audience. As such, this book shows how in Machiavelli's world, violence is designed to be perceived, experienced, remembered, and narrated.

Author : John P. McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494961
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavellian Democracy written by John P. McCormick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. McCormick confronts this dire situation through a dramatic reinterpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought. Highlighting previously neglected democratic strains in Machiavelli's major writings, McCormick excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates, and he imagines how such institutions might be revived today. It reassesses one of the central figures in the Western political canon and decisively intervenes into current debates over institutional design and democratic reform. McCormick proposes a citizen body that excludes socioeconomic and political elites and grants randomly selected common people significant veto, legislative and censure authority within government and over public officials.