Machiavelli And The Orders Of Violence

Author : Yves Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108580717

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Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence by Yves Winter Pdf

Niccolò Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious, because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of violence and shows how it challenges moral and metaphysical ideas. Winter attributes two central theses to Machiavelli: first, violence is not a generic technology of government but a strategy that tends to correlate with inequality and class conflict; and second, violence is best understood not in terms of conventional notions of law enforcement, coercion, or the proverbial 'last resort', but as performance. Most political violence is effective not because it physically compels another agent who is thus coerced; rather, it produces political effects by appealing to an audience. As such, this book shows how in Machiavelli's world, violence is designed to be perceived, experienced, remembered, and narrated.

Author : Yves Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426701

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Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence by Yves Winter Pdf

Niccol- Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious, because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of violence and shows how it challenges moral and metaphysical ideas. Winter attributes two central theses to Machiavelli: first, violence is not a generic technology of government but a strategy that tends to correlate with inequality and class conflict; and second, violence is best understood not in terms of conventional notions of law enforcement, coercion, or the proverbial 'last resort', but as performance. Most political violence is effective not because it physically compels another agent who is thus coerced; rather, it produces political effects by appealing to an audience. As such, this book shows how in Machiavelli's world, violence is designed to be perceived, experienced, remembered, and narrated.

Author : Christopher Holma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781487503932

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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation by Christopher Holma Pdf

Presenting a detailed reinterpretation and reconstruction of the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli's texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. The book critically and creatively juxtaposes certain concepts drawn from Machiavelli's work in order to produce new political insights. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their equal access to political institutions and orders. Such institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and refinement. In the final instance, a new ethical ground for the normative defense of democratic life is constructed, one grounded in the orientation of individual beings toward novelty and innovation.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681959030

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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Machiavelli's The Prince was a battle for obtaining and maintaining power in 14th century Italy but it is surprisingly relevant to the understanding of business, politics and the nature of society.

Author : Mark Hulliung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351528481

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Citizen Machiavelli by Mark Hulliung Pdf

Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that moral ends sometimes require immoral means. Against this interpretation, Mark Hulliung argues that Machiavelli's "humanism," was rooted in classical notions of grandeur and greatness, and that his prime reason for admiring the ancient Roman republic was that it conquered the world. In short, Machiavelli was at his most Machiavellian precisely when he voiced his "civic humanism."Hulliung argues that Machiavelli's embrace of fraud and violence cannot be justified by patriotism or a professed concern with the common good. He indicts Machiavelli's use and abuse of history in the service of his cynical agenda?the quest for power. Hulliung sees Machiavelli as a republican imperialist, embracing the heroic pagan virtues and consciously subverting the humanistic tradition of Cicero, and the religious morality of Christianity, with an intentionally skewed interpretation of republican Rome.By inverting the Stoical and Christian elements of the classics, Machiavelli made the humanistic tradition give birth to Machiavellism, its terrible child. Hulliung's thesis is convincing, and his book is a valuable contribution to the debate on Machiavellian thought.

Author : Alissa M. Ardito
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107693708

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Machiavelli and the Modern State by Alissa M. Ardito Pdf

This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccol- Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger, it was believed only monarchies could govern large territories effectively. Republicanism was a form of government relegated to urban city-states, anachronisms in the new age of the territorial state. For centuries, history and theory were in agreement: constructing an extended republic was as futile as trying to square the circle; but then James Madison devised a compound representative republic that enabled popular government to take on renewed life in the modern era. This work argues that Machiavelli had his own Madisonian impulse and deserves to be recognized as the first modern political theorist to envision the possibility of a republic with a large population extending over a broad territory.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547668503

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Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.

Author : Michael Jackson,Damian Grace
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004365513

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Machiavelliana by Michael Jackson,Damian Grace Pdf

Machiavelliana is the first comprehensive study of the uses and abuses made of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in management, primatology, leadership, power, as well as in novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, children’s books, and more.

Author : John P. McCormick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691211541

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Reading Machiavelli by John P. McCormick Pdf

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.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044025050071

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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

Author : Sukanta Chaudhuri,Prasanta Chakravarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516720

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Machiavelli Then and Now by Sukanta Chaudhuri,Prasanta Chakravarty Pdf

Explores Machiavelli's intellectual engagement with human affairs in a wide triple perspective of history, politics and literature.

Author : Christopher Celenza
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674416123

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Machiavelli by Christopher Celenza Pdf

The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza’s portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient history, comic playwright, tireless letter writer, and thwarted lover.

Author : Dustin Ells Howes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199336999

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Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes Pdf

'Freedom Without Violence' offers a critical appraisal of the conventional wisdom that violence is required for liberation and the defense of freedom. Comparing the broad span of violent revolutions with the history of non-violent social movements, the book shows that freedom is indelibly tied to the means used to achieve and defend it.

Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400831845

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Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner Pdf

Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the "Machiavellian" maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory, Erica Benner gives the most complete account yet of Machiavelli's thought. She argues that his difficult and puzzling style of writing owes far more to ancient Greek sources than is usually recognized, as does his chief aim: to teach readers not how to produce deceptive political appearances and rhetoric, but how to see through them. Drawing on a close reading of Greek authors--including Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch--Benner identifies a powerful and neglected key to understanding Machiavelli. This important new interpretation is based on the most comprehensive study of Machiavelli's writings to date, including a detailed examination of all of his major works: The Prince, The Discourses, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories. It helps explain why readers such as Bacon and Rousseau could see Machiavelli as a fellow moral philosopher, and how they could view The Prince as an ethical and republican text. By identifying a rigorous structure of principles behind Machiavelli's historical examples, the book should also open up fresh debates about his relationship to later philosophers, including Rousseau, Hobbes, and Kant.

Author : Gabriele Pedullà
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177277

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Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà Pdf

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.