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The Discourses (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Machiavelli, Niccolo

 
9780140444285: The Discourses (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0140444289 ISBN 13: 9780140444285
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1983

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Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolò Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics. In this carefully argued commentary on Livy’s history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics.

Leslie J. Walker’s definitive translation has been revised by Brian Richardson and is accompanied by an introduction by Bernard Crick, which illuminates Machiavelli’s historical context and his new theories of politics. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading and notes.

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Niccolo Machivaelli (1469-1527) was appointed secretary to the Florentine Republic in 1498. He was dismissed from this post in 1512 and forced to withdraw from public life, after which time he wrote The Prince, a handbook for rulers. Leslie Walker translated many texts from Italian over the course of a distinguished career.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1983
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140444289
ISBN 13 
9780140444285
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
544
Herausgeber
Crick Bernard
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