Machiavelli's Virtue

Name: Machiavelli's Virtue
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ISBN: 9780226503691

ISBN-10: 0226503690

ISBN-13: 9780226503691

Edition: 1998

Authors: Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvey C. Mansfield

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Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail,Machiavelli's Virtueis a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought."The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . .…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/25/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.92" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Abbreviations


Preface



Machiavelli's Virtue



Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities



Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics



Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress



An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories



Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories



An Introduction to The Prince



An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War



Strauss's Machiavelli



Machiavelli's New Regime



Machiavelli's Political Science



Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State



Machiavelli and the Modern Executive


Notes


Bibliography


Index