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Niccolò Machiavelli : history, power, and virtue / edited by Leonidas Donskis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Value inquiry book series ; v. 226.
- Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics.
- Value inquiry book series ; v. 226
- Philosophy, literature, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Congresses.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is an attempt to rethink Niccolò Machiavelli, one of the most challenging political thinkers in the history of European political thought. In 2013, we will mark 500 years since Machiavelli wrote his puzzling letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Principe . This book is an endeavor to cover some of the most complex aspects of Machiavelli’s life and work.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- AGAINST ALL THE ODDS: MACHIAVELLI ON FORTUNE IN POLITICS / Timo Airaksinen
- BORDER-VALUE MORALITY AND SEMANTICAL COHERENCE IN MACHIAVELLI’S PRINCE / Hubert Schleichert
- NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI ON POWER / Manfred J. Holler
- THE MODERN WHO BELIEVED THAT HE WAS THE ANCIENT: NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI IN EUROPEAN THOUGHT AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION / Leonidas Donskis
- MACHIAVELLI AND THE THEORY OF EXEMPLARY CONSTITUTIONS / Cătălin Avramescu
- VIRTUE IN HOBBES: SEEN FROM MACHIAVELLIAN POINT OF VIEW / Juhana Lemetti
- RETHINKING MACHIAVELLI: REPUBLICANISM AND TOLERANCE / Olli Loukola
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- VIBS.
- Notes:
- This book is the outcome of a series of international seminars held at Vytautas Magnus University School of Political Science and Diplomacy in Kaunas, Lithuania.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-00931-5
- 9786613009319
- 90-420-3278-2
- OCLC:
- 711050619
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789042032781 DOI
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