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Reading Machiavelli : scandalous books, suspect engagements, and the virtue of populist politics / John P. McCormick.
LIBRA PQ4627.M2 Z745 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCormick, John P., 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Criticism and interpretation.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
- Populism--History--To 1500.
- Populism.
- Populism--History--16th century.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Part I
- 1 The Passion of Duke Valentino: Cesare Borgia, Biblical Allegory, and The Prince p. 21
- 2 "Keep the Public Rich and the Citizens Poor": Economic Inequality and Political Corruption in the Discourses p. 45
- 3 On the Myth of a Conservative Turn in the Florentine Histories p. 69
- Part II
- 4 Rousseau's Repudiation of Machiavelli's Democratic Roman Republic p. 109
- 5 Leo Strauss's Machiavelli and the Querelle between the Few and the Many p. 144
- 6 The Cambridge School's "Guicciardinian Moments" Revisited p. 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691183503
- 0691183503
- OCLC:
- 1050721955
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