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

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

McCormick, John P.

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PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 069121154X
ISBN13: 9780691211541
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A new reading of Machiavelli's major works that demonstrates how he has been previously misread

To what extent was Niccolò 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 Machiavelli's three major political works--The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine Histories--and demonstrates that a radically democratic populism seeded the Florentine's scandalous writings. John McCormick challenges the misguided understandings of Machiavelli set forth by prominent thinkers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and representatives of the Straussian and Cambridge schools, and he emphasizes the fundamental, often unacknowledged elements of a vibrant Machiavellian politics. Advancing fresh readings of Machiavelli's work, this book presents a new outlook on how politics should be conceptualized and practiced.

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