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Author | : François Matheron |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1789600073 |
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"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the cole Normale Suprieure in 1972, intermittently revised up to the mid-1980s, and carefully prepared for publication after his death in 1990. Though only appearing as an occasional reference in the Marxist philosopher's oeuvre, Machiavelli was an unseen constant presence. For together with Spinoza and Marx, Machiavelli was a veritable Althusserian passion. Machiavelli and Us reveals why, and will be welcomed for the light it sheds on the richly complex thought of its author.
Author | : Niccolo Machiavelli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1988-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521349932 |
Download Machiavelli: The Prince Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.
Author | : John Lamberton Harper |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2004-03-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521834856 |
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Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.
Author | : Niccolo Machiavelli |
Publisher | : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2020-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 164798145X |
Download The Prince Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Thomas M. Kane |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134164335 |
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This enlightening new book examines the roots of America's new unilateralism in terms of Machiavelli's theory of state politics.
Author | : Mikko Lahtinen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004176500 |
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Louis Althusser s interpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli has never really been studied in any detail as an analysis of political action and intervention. The same is also true for Althusser s notion of aleatory materialism. Instead, these have conventionally been studied from the viewpoint of a philosophical perspective in which politics is excluded. The objective of the present book thus runs against many of the prevailing views on Althusser. Here the emphasis is placed on Althusser's advancement of a theory of materialist politics. The main argument put forward is that, for Althusser, it was essential to reflect on how the conjunctural understanding of history and reality could offer a theoretical starting point for a subversive political strategy.
Author | : Suzanne Evans |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1451699581 |
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Counsels parents on how to manage a rambunctious family, sharing the author's successes with experimenting with such tactics as instilling a fear of consequences, withholding unnecessary details, and using gentle manipulation.
Author | : Thomas Block |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Political culture |
ISBN | : 9781628940664 |
Download Machiavelli in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Machiavelli advised us that people are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, through whatever means necessary, to follow his dictates. This book traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means,' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power. He maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity and said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution and "legal" fraud and corruption. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, the Supreme Court's 'Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission' (2010) and the Super PACs it spawned, the massive amounts of money ("power's master key"), the intermingling of the language of religion and war, and the 90% negative advertising of the 2012 Presidential campaign (channeling Machiavelli's dictum that the adversary must be "assassinated," though in contemporary America by character assassination) and even Barack Obama's Machiavellian machinations are looked at in light of the Renaissance political philosopher's ideas. The last section of the book offers a response to this with a specific, implementable program that will begin to devolve the power of American democracy back to the people.
Author | : John P. McCormick |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 069121154X |
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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 | : Yves Winter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108580718 |
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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.