Reading Machiavelli : Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue o...

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Reading Machiavelli : Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics, Paperback by McCormick, John P., ISBN 069121154X, ISBN-13 9780691211541, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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.

• ISBN: 9780691211541
• Condition: Fine

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