Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics
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Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics
By (Author) John P. McCormick
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
22nd February 2021
United States
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General
Non Fiction
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
320.01
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288
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Description
A new reading of Machiavelli's major works that demonstrates how he has been previously misread To what extent was Niccolo 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 nihil
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Author Bio
John P. McCormick is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His books include Weimar Thought (Princeton) and Machiavellian Democracy.
