Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics

by John P McCormick and John P. McCormick

Book Overview

To what extent was 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 Niccol Machiavelli's three major political works--The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine Histories--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691183503
• ISBN13: 9780691183503
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.8"