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Availability:In StockContributor:Harvey C. MansfieldPublish date:1998-03-25Pages:460
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226503691ISBN-10:226503690UPC:9780226503691Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Theory, PoliticalSize:8.96 x 5.87 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCB0M0QYHG
Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought.

"The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."-Hadley Arkes, New Criterion

"Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands."-Colin Walters, Washington Times

"[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation."-Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226503691ISBN-10:226503690UPC:9780226503691Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Theory, PoliticalSize:8.96 x 5.87 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCB0M0QYHG
Mansfield, Harvey C.: - Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Machiavelli's Virtue and has translated The Prince, Discourses on Livy (with Nathan Tarcov), and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (with Delba Winthrop), all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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