Introducing Machiavelli / Patrick Curry and Oscar Zarate ; edited by Richard Appignanesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curry, Patrick.

Contributor:

Zarate, Oscar, 1942-

Appignanesi, Richard.

Standardized Title:

Machiavelli for beginners

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Political science.

Physical Description:

174 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Machiavelli

Place of Publication:

Duxford, Cambridge : Icon Books ; USA : Totem Books ; Lanham, Md. : In the U.S. distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 2000.

Summary:

"Machiavellian" is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic work on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains a compellingly frank practical guide to power. Is it a handbook for dictators, a cynical philosophy of "the end justifies the means, " or a complex analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical Renaissance realist, whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist, and who is now central to the postmodern debate on Civil Society.

Notes:

Originally published as: Machiavelli for beginners. 1995.

ISBN:

1840461160

OCLC:

42834547