Description
Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavellis Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavellis politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavellis thought.
The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfields] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new.—Hadley Arkes, New Criterion
Mansfields book more than rewards the close reading it demands.—Colin Walters, Washington Times
[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalisms anodyne rehabilitation.—Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal
Chapter
Part Two: Machiavelli's Beginnings
Part Two: Machiavelli's Beginnings
Part Two: Machiavelli's Beginnings
Part Two: Machiavelli's Beginnings
2. Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities
2. Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities
2. Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities
2. Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities
3. Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
3. Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
3. Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
3. Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics
4. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress
4. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress
4. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress
4. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress
Part Three: Machiavelli's Books
Part Three: Machiavelli's Books
Part Three: Machiavelli's Books
Part Three: Machiavelli's Books
5. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
5. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
5. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
5. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
6. Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
6. Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
6. Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
6. Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
7. An Introduction to The Prince
7. An Introduction to The Prince
7. An Introduction to The Prince
7. An Introduction to The Prince
8. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War
8. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War
8. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War
8. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War
Part Four: Machiavelli's Politics
Part Four: Machiavelli's Politics
Part Four: Machiavelli's Politics
Part Four: Machiavelli's Politics
10. Machiavelli's New Regime
10. Machiavelli's New Regime
10. Machiavelli's New Regime
10. Machiavelli's New Regime
11. Machiavelli's Political Science
11. Machiavelli's Political Science
11. Machiavelli's Political Science
11. Machiavelli's Political Science
12. Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State
12. Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State
12. Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State
12. Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State
13. Machiavelli and the Modern Executive
13. Machiavelli and the Modern Executive
13. Machiavelli and the Modern Executive
13. Machiavelli and the Modern Executive
Machiavelli's Virtue
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