Machiavelli's virtue / Harvey C. Mansfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr., 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Ethics.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998, c1966.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is 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. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."-Hadley Arkes, New Criterion "Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands."-Colin Walters, Washington Times "[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation."-Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal

Contents:

pt. 1. Machiavelli the Prince

pt. 2. Machiavelli's beginnings

pt. 3. Machiavelli's books

pt. 4. Machiavelli's politics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-360) and index.

ISBN:

9786612584862

9781282584860

1282584863

9780226503721

0226503720

OCLC:

635292277