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Machiavelli Then and Now : History, Politics, Literature
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Machiavelli's ideas are as important in our time as in his own. His insights and prescriptions help us make sense of today's political upheavals and natural calamities and reduce them to a working ...
Machiavelli's ideas are as important in our time as in his own. His insights and prescriptions help us make sense of today's political upheavals and natural calamities and reduce them to a working order. The chapters in Machiavelli Then and Now explore Machiavelli's central concerns: statecraft and order, liberty and citizenship, diplomacy and leadership, modes of strategization, the quest for empire - all set against the basic contention between autarchy, oligarchy and democracy. They also address the ethical and behaviourial factors behind political practice, such as force, suasion, ambition, corruption and vigilance in public discourse. The contributors consider the role of language, text and the imagination in Machiavelli, and they also bring the Machiavellian discourse closer to our own times, in relation to Gandhi, Gramsci and Althusser. The book will interest historians, political scientists and students of public policy; philosophers, rhetoricians and literary critics; and no less institution builders, diplomats and, administrators.
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- Creator
- edited by Prasanta Chakravarty, Sukanta Chaudhuri
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 335 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 1009030124, 1316516725, 9781009030120, 9781009082020, 9781316516720, 1009082027
- OCLC
- on1295315219
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Jan 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Machiavelli Then and Now -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Editions Used -- 1 Introduction -- Form, Event, Initiative -- Reception and Transmigration -- Why Now? -- Machiavelli, the Man of Letters -- Notes -- Power, Citizenship, Strategies -- 2 Machiavelli on Relationships: Knowledge of the Occasion -- Knowing the Occasion -- The Clash of Temporalities -- Forms of Matter -- Forcing Belief -- Thinking Relations -- Notes -- 3 The Anatomy of an Error: Machiavelli's Supposed Commitment to a 'Citizen' Militia -- The Florentine Militia
- One's Own Arms -- Ordinanza -- Political and Military Populism -- A Precocious Jacobin? -- Notes -- 4 Machiavelli and Tyranny -- Notes -- 5 Machiavelli's Turn to Xenophon -- The Rediscovery of Xenophon -- Platonism and Aristotelianism Rejected -- The Reign of Machiavelli's Cyrus -- Notes -- 6 Machiavelli and the Solitary Discipline of Hunting -- Leisure as Dedication -- Energetic Effort -- Xenophon's On Hunting -- Clemency as Valour -- A Magical Symphony -- Lynching: A Control Scenario -- The Terminus of Hunting -- Notes
- 7 'To Give Reputation to One': Machiavelli the Populist and Other Variations on Il Principe, Chapter 9 -- Notes -- History -- 8 Riscontro: Machiavelli's Art of History -- Political Practice, Conjuncture, Determinism -- Adaequatio and Prudence -- Forcing the Times and the Art of History -- Notes -- 9 'Letters as Oracles': Machiavelli's Foresight in His Letters -- Back to Work for the Medici -- The Guicciardinian Moment -- Notes -- 10 Machiavelli's Lucretia and the Origins of the Roman Republic: Rape, Gender, and Founding Violence -- The Legend of Lucretia
- Machiavelli's Version of the Roman Revolution -- Interpretive Path 1: Violence and Women's Agency -- Interpretive Path 2: The Economy of Male Honour -- Interpretive Path 3: Ambivalence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Words and Dispositions -- 11 Thinking with Animals: Machiavelli's L'asino and the Metamorphoses of Power -- Notes -- 12 Machiavellian Rhetoric Revisited -- Notes -- 13 Machiavelli Reading -- Reading, Presence, and Representation -- Humanist Reading: Action and Performance -- Reading as Conversation with the Dead -- Symptomatic Reading -- Machiavelli as Symptomatic Reader
- Machiavelli and the 'Unconscious' of His Text -- Notes -- 14 A Language for Politics and a Language of Politics: Words as a Tool of Understanding and of Action in Machiavelli -- Towards a Semantic History of Politics: A Proposal for a Political Philology -- Interlude -- Forms, process, and necessity -- The moments and the genres -- The Language of War as the Language of State -- Conclusion: The Art of Language as the Art of Statecraft -- the Art of Statecraft as the Art of Language -- Notes -- Afterlife -- 15 Machiavelli and Gandhi -- Notes -- 16 The Prince between Gramsci and Althusser