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Introducing Machiavelli - Couverture souple

Curry, Patrick

 
9781840461169: Introducing Machiavelli
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1840461160 ISBN 13 : 9781840461169
Editeur : Icon Books, 2000

Synopsis

"Machiavellian" is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, "The Prince", published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. It is a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical philosophy of "the end justifies the means", or a more complex and subtle analysis of successful government? Machiavelli was a loyal servant of the Florentine republic. His opposition to Medici despotism led him to torture on the rack and exile, and yet he chose as his model for the Prince the most notorious tyrant, Cesare Borgia. This book traces the colourful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist. Machiavelli is seen as central to the post-modern debate on civil society.

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Éditeur
Icon Books
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840461160
ISBN 13 
9781840461169
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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