Description: Further DetailsTitle: On Niccolò MachiavelliCondition: NewSubtitle: The Bonds of PoliticsISBN-10: 0231205554EAN: 9780231205559ISBN: 9780231205559Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/17/2023Description: Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence’s free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A Renaissance humanist? A prophet of Italian unification? A theorist of mixed government? A forerunner to authoritarianism? The master of the dark arts of intrigue?This book provides a vivid and engaging introduction to Machiavelli’s life and works that sheds new light on his originality and relevance. Gabriele Pedullà—a leading Italian expert and acclaimed writer—offers fresh readings of the Florentine thinker’s most famous writings, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, as well as lesser-known texts. A new and often surprising Machiavelli emerges: one closer to his time but also better suited to inform our own. Pedullà’s portrait of Machiavelli highlights his close attention to social and emotional bonds, staunch opposition to oligarchy, keen awareness of the economic side of power dynamics, and strong preference for history over philosophy as a guide for leaders.This book recovers the excitement Machiavelli roused in his first readers for a twenty-first-century audience, capturing his capacity to provoke, both then and now, with unconventional ideas and startling insights.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Gabriele PedullàGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Core KnowledgeRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: On Niccolò Machiavelli
Title: On Niccolò Machiavelli
Subtitle: The Bonds of Politics
ISBN-10: 0231205554
EAN: 9780231205559
ISBN: 9780231205559
Release Date: 10/17/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Core Knowledge
Book Title: On Niccolò Machiavelli : the Bonds of Politics
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: Medieval, History & Theory, General, Political
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Philosophy
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Author: Gabriele Pedullà
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Book Series: Core Knowledge Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback