Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World - Softcover

Benner, Erica

 
9780393355819: Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393355810 ISBN 13: 9780393355819
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2018

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In the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli's name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that "the ends justify the means." But that is not what he stood for. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner takes us back to Renaissance Florence, where newly liberated citizens fought to build a free republic after the Medici princes were exiled. Machiavelli dedicated his life to this struggle for freedom. But despite his heroic efforts, the Medici soon swept back into power. Forced out of politics and prevented from speaking freely, Machiavelli had to use his skills of foxlike dissimulation to defend democracy in an era of tyrannical princes. Drawing on his letters, political writings, hard-hitting satirical dramas, and conversations with kings and popes, Be Like the Fox reveals Machiavelli as an unlikely hero for our times.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Erica Benner lives in Berlin. She is the author of several books, including Machiavelli's Ethics and Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading. Formerly a Fellow at Yale University, Benner taught for many years at Oxford University and the London School of Economics.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393355810
ISBN 13 
9780393355819
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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