Machiavelli and the politics of democratic innovation / Christopher Holman.
Material type: TextPublisher: 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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- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Political and social views
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Principe
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
- Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Machiavelli, Niccolò)
- Principe (Machiavelli, Niccolò)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- PHILOSOPHY -- General
- Political and social views
- JC143.M4
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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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