Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
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Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

About this book

No text has attracted more controversy over the centuries than Machiavelli's The Prince. Placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by the Catholic Church in 1599, The Prince nevertheless proved to be the means by which Machiavelli came to be known throughout Europe, establishing his name as a byword for the cunning and unscrupulous politician.Written as the medieval world was giving way to the new dynamic of renaissance capitalism, The Prince embodies a whole series of vital issues that affect our understanding of modern politics, including power and morality, history and human nature, language and meaning, gender and government. It is these issues which the essays in this volume debate and explore from a variety of perspectives, from the original responses to The Prince through to feminist and deconstructive approaches. The result is a volume packed with ideas and insights.With contributions by international scholars and critics, a chronological table and select bibliography, this is an essential guide for anyone studying Machiavelli.

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Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Contents
  3. Series introduction
  4. A note on references
  5. Chronology
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 The Prince and its early Italian readers
  8. 3 Machiavelli's via moderna: medieval and Renaissance attitudes to history
  9. 4 Dialogue in The Prince
  10. 5 Language and The Prince
  11. 6 The end justifies the means: end-orientation and the discourses of power
  12. 7 The Prince and textual politics
  13. 8 Machiavelli's political philosophy in The Prince
  14. Appendix
  15. Notes on contributors
  16. Select bibliography
  17. Index