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John P. McCormick

Reading Machiavelli

Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics

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To what extent was Niccolò Machiavelli a Machiavellian? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Machiavelli's three major political works--The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine Histories--and demonstrates that a radically democratic populism seeded the Florentine's scandalous writings. John McCormick challenges the misguided understandings of Machiavelli set forth by prominent thinkers, including Jean-Jacque… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-21154-1
  • EAN: 9780691211541
  • Produktnummer: 33842354
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm

Über den Autor


John P. McCormick is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His books include Weimar Thought (Princeton) and Machiavellian Democracy.

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