The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Najemy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2010-06-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827863 |
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Najemy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2010-06-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052186125X |
A vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker, assessing his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Najemy |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
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Niccoláo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Cicero PDF eBook |
Author | C. E. W. Steel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 445 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521509939 |
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss PDF eBook |
Author | Steven B. Smith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2009-05-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781139828253 |
Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Flower |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 545 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107050065 |
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
Fortune Is a Woman
Title | Fortune Is a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Hanna Fenichel Pitkin |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 1999-10-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226669920 |
"Hanna Pitkin's study of Machiavelli was the first to place gender systematically at the center of its exploration of his political thought. Rife with contradictions, Machiavelli's writings have led commentators to characterize him as everything from a civic republican to a proto-fascist. Acknowledging these contradictions, Pitkin shows that they reflect three distinct ways of thinking about politics, each of which is tied to a different understanding of "manhood." In a new Afterword, Pitkin discusses the book's critical reception and situates its arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought."--Jacket.