The Cambridge Companion To Machiavelli

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827867

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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 : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521861250

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The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy Pdf

A vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker, assessing his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1335725240

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The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy Pdf

Niccoláo 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 : Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226669922

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Fortune Is a Woman by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin Pdf

"Hanna Pitkin's study of Machiavelli was the first to place gender systematically at the center of its exploration of his political thought. Rife with contradictions, Machiavelli's writings have led commentators to characterize him as everything from a civic republican to a proto-fascist. Acknowledging these contradictions, Pitkin shows that they reflect three distinct ways of thinking about politics, each of which is tied to a different understanding of "manhood." In a new Afterword, Pitkin discusses the book's critical reception and situates its arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought."--Jacket.

Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139827805

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric by Erik Gunderson Pdf

Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that include disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend to take it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly from other social and cultural concerns. This volume provides an overview of the shape and scope of the problems while also identifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion, virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix and mingle differently, and the contents designated by each of these terms can also shift.

Author : Michael A. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107050068

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The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon by Michael A. Flower Pdf

Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521509930

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The Cambridge Companion to Cicero by C. E. W. Steel Pdf

A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521803594

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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire by Kirk Freudenburg Pdf

Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.

Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139828258

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The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith Pdf

Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Author : Peter S. Donaldson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521437903

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Machiavelli and Mystery of State by Peter S. Donaldson Pdf

Machiavelli and Mystery of State studies the intersection of sacred and secular conceptions of kingship in the Renaissance by documenting in detail six instances of the attempt to connect Machiavelli's thought to an ancient and secret tradition of political counsel, the arcana imperii or mysteries of state. This book illuminates an important and neglected dimension of Machiavelli's powerful influence on Renaissance political discourse.

Author : Michael Wyatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521876063

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance by Michael Wyatt Pdf

Leading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Florence (History)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNL3X3

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The Florentine Histories by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

Author : Peter Bondanella,Andrea Ciccarelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669626

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Peter Bondanella,Andrea Ciccarelli Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development.

Author : Karen Orren,John W. Compton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107094666

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The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution by Karen Orren,John W. Compton Pdf

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.