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Machiavelli and the politics of democratic innovation / Christopher Holman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (311 pages))Content type:
  • text
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1487519095
  • 1487531591
  • 9781487519094
  • 9781487531591
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Machiavelli and the politics of democratic innovation.LOC classification:
  • JC143.M4
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Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.
Summary: This book critically reevaluates the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, demonstrating the extent to which he can be seen to formulate a unique ethical foundation for democratic practice that is grounded in the creative orientation of all individuals.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index.

Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.

This book critically reevaluates the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, demonstrating the extent to which he can be seen to formulate a unique ethical foundation for democratic practice that is grounded in the creative orientation of all individuals.

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