Machiavellian Rhetoric

Author : Victoria Kahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691034911

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Machiavellian Rhetoric by Victoria Kahn Pdf

Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is not simply the result of a naïve misreading of Machiavelli but is attuned to the rhetorical dimension of his political theory in a way that later thematic readings of Machiavelli are not. Her aim is to provide a revised history of Renaissance Machiavellism, particularly in England: one that sees the Machiavel and the republican as equally valid--and related--readings of Machiavelli's work. In this revised history, Machiavelli offers a rhetoric for dealing with the realm of de facto political power, rather than a political theory with a coherent thematic content; and Renaissance Machiavellism includes a variety of rhetorically sophisticated appreciations and appropriations of Machiavelli's own rhetorical approach to politics. Part I offers readings of The Prince, The Discourses, and Counter-Reformation responses to Machiavelli. Part II discusses the reception of Machiavelli in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England. Part III focuses on Milton, especially Areopagitica, Comus, and Paradise Lost.

Author : Victoria Kahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400821280

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Machiavellian Rhetoric by Victoria Kahn Pdf

Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is not simply the result of a naïve misreading of Machiavelli but is attuned to the rhetorical dimension of his political theory in a way that later thematic readings of Machiavelli are not. Her aim is to provide a revised history of Renaissance Machiavellism, particularly in England: one that sees the Machiavel and the republican as equally valid--and related--readings of Machiavelli's work. In this revised history, Machiavelli offers a rhetoric for dealing with the realm of de facto political power, rather than a political theory with a coherent thematic content; and Renaissance Machiavellism includes a variety of rhetorically sophisticated appreciations and appropriations of Machiavelli's own rhetorical approach to politics. Part I offers readings of The Prince, The Discourses, and Counter-Reformation responses to Machiavelli. Part II discusses the reception of Machiavelli in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England. Part III focuses on Milton, especially Areopagitica, Comus, and Paradise Lost.

Author : Mikael Hörnqvist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139456340

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Machiavelli and Empire by Mikael Hörnqvist Pdf

Mikael Hörnqvist challenges us to rethink the overall meaning and importance of Machiavelli's political thinking. Machiavelli and Empire combines close textual analysis of The Prince and The Discourses with a broad historical approach, to establish the importance of empire-building and imperial strategy in Machiavelli's thought. The primary context of Machiavelli's work, Hörnqvist argues, is not the mirror-for-princes genre or medieval and Renaissance republicanism in general, but a tradition of Florentine imperialist republicanism dating back to the late thirteenth-century, based on the twin notions of liberty at home and empire abroad. Weaving together themes and topics drawn from contemporary Florentine political debate, Medicean ritual and Renaissance triumphalism, this study explores how Machiavelli in his chancery writings and theoretical works promoted the long standing aspirations of Florence to become a great and expanding empire, modelled on the example of the ancient Roman republic. This is a distinctive and important work.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199257604

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Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne by Hugh Grady Pdf

The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor.

Author : DS Mayfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110701777

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Rhetoric and Contingency by DS Mayfield Pdf

Human life is susceptible of changing suddenly, of shifting inadvertently, of appearing differently, of varying unpredictably, of being altered deliberately, of advancing fortuitously, of commencing or ending accidentally, of a certain malleability. In theory, any human being is potentially capacitated to conceive of—and convey—the chance, view, or fact that matters may be otherwise, or not at all; with respect to other lifeforms, this might be said animal’s distinctive characteristic. This state of play is both an everyday phenomenon, and an indispensable prerequisite for exceptional innovations in culture and science: contingency is the condition of possibility for any of the arts—be they dominantly concerned with thinking, crafting, or enacting. While their scope and method may differ, the (f)act of reckoning with—and taking advantage of—contingency renders rhetoricians and philosophers associates after all. In this regard, Aristotle and Blumenberg will be exemplary, hence provide the framework. Between these diachronic bridgeheads, close readings applying the nexus of rhetoric and contingency to a selection of (Early) Modern texts and authors are intercalated—among them La Celestina, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wilde, Fontane.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647981457

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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Pdf

Written in the 16th century, The Prince remains one of the most influential books on political theory. Its author, Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and political theorist, and is considered the father of modern political thought.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827867

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The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy Pdf

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Author : Danny C. Campbell
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000087917997

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Reading the Rhetoric of Revenge from Jacobean Drama to Milton by Danny C. Campbell Pdf

In this study of the seventeenth century's fascination with revenge, Dr. Campbell followed a pathway of evidence that led him to certain conclusions not foreseen at the outset. In embarking on the distinct genre of revenge tragedy in the Jacobean period, Dr. Campbell did not anticipate that he would end up focusing so much on the role of the malcontent or on Milton's role in Writing what amounts to a poetic revenge tragedy in Paradise Lost.

Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : John P. McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139494960

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Machiavellian Democracy by John P. McCormick Pdf

Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. McCormick confronts this dire situation through a dramatic reinterpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought. Highlighting previously neglected democratic strains in Machiavelli's major writings, McCormick excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates, and he imagines how such institutions might be revived today. It reassesses one of the central figures in the Western political canon and decisively intervenes into current debates over institutional design and democratic reform. McCormick proposes a citizen body that excludes socioeconomic and political elites and grants randomly selected common people significant veto, legislative and censure authority within government and over public officials.

Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013241354

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Machiavelli and the History of Prudence by Eugene Garver Pdf

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107128859

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From Humanism to Hobbes by Quentin Skinner Pdf

Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.

Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199653638

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Machiavelli's Prince by Erica Benner Pdf

This book gives a radical, new, chapter-by-chapter reading of Machiavelli's The Prince, arguing that it is an ironic masterpiece with a moral purpose. It outlines Machiavelli's most important ironic techniques: a normatively coded use of language.

Author : John Alan Roe
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0859917649

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Shakespeare and Machiavelli by John Alan Roe Pdf

The study concludes with two chapters on the Roman plays and assesses Shakespeare's representation of the problem of conscience (Julius Caesar) and magnanimity (Antony and Cleopatra) in the light of Machiavelli's republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015067672470

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 by Anonim Pdf