Machiavelli's Prince : a new reading
- Author/Creator:
- Benner, Erica
- Publication/Creation:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- First edition.
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- Full Title:
- Machiavelli's Prince : a new reading / Erica Benner
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- Table of Contents:
- Cover; Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Detailed contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; MACHIAVELLI'S LIFE AND TIMES; MACHIAVELLI, THE MEDICI, AND THE PRINCE; A PECULIAR KIND OF HANDBOOK; IRONY AND POLITICAL CRITICISM; SIGNS OF IRONY IN THE PRINCE; THE USES OF INCONSISTENCY; PRINCES OF VIRTÚ AND OF FORTUNE; WHY WOULD MACHIAVELLI DISSIMULATE?; THE PRINCE AS A DISCOURSE; READING THE PRINCE; Machiavelli's ironic techniques; (1) PARADOX AND GENERAL STANDARDS; (2) AMBIGUITY AND NORMATIVELY 'CODED' LANGUAGE; (3) PROVOCATIVE USE OF EXAMPLES
(4) IRONIC CONTRAST(a) Contrasting words and deeds; (b) Contrasting descriptions; (5) ELOQUENT SILENCES AND OMISSIONS; (a) Unstated parallels; (b) Misleading omissions; (6) IRONIC TRANSFORMATION; (7) HYPERBOLE AND EXAGGERATION; (8) ABSURD OR OUTRAGEOUS ASSERTIONS; Coded words; Dedication: princes and peoples; POLITICAL RESOURCES: KNOWLEDGE AND FORTUNE; POPULAR AND PRINCELY KNOWLEDGE; MACHIAVELLI'S FORTUNE AND THE FORTUNE OF PRINCES; States; 1: States and modes; STATES AND DOMINIONS; REPUBLICS AND PRINCIPALITIES; SILENT TYRANNY; THE HEREDITARY, THE NEW, AND THE FREE; FORTUNE AND VIRTÚ
DISADVANTAGES OF RELYING ON FORTUNEWHAT IS VIRTÚ; 2: Maintaining states; ABSENT REPUBLICS; HEREDITARY PRINCES: ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY; CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION; 3: Empire; WHY NEW PRINCES FACE DIFFICULTIES; DOES NECESSITY EXCUSE INJURIES?; DIFFICULTIES FOR NEW PRINCES IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY; REMEDIES I : WHEN A PRINCE'S OLD STATE IS IN THE SAME PROVINCE AS A NEWLY ADDED ONE; REMEDIES I I : WHEN NEWLY ACQUIRED STATES ARE IN A DIFFERENT PROVINCE; REMEDIES III: INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR HOLDING A FOREIGN STATE; ROMAN FORESIGHT: THE PRINCE-STATE'S PERSPECTIVE
ROMAN FORESIGHT: THE WIDER PERSPECTIVEMODERN ERRORS: THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRINCES; MODERN ERRORS: THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUBJECTS; 4: Absolute government; TWO MODES OF PRINCELY GOVERNMENT: DEPENDENT OFFICIALS OR INDEPENDENT LORDS; TWO MODES OF ACQUIRING AND HOLDING EMPIRE; WHICH KIND OF STATE SHOULD A PRINCE PREFER TO HAVE?; 5: Free cities; HOW TO HOLD FREE STATES; WHY CONQUERORS OF FREE CITIES MUST RUIN THEM; THE REVENGE OF FREE PEOPLES; Modes; 6: Virtú; WHAT IS VIRTÚ? WORDS AND DEEDS; WHY IT IS BETTER TO RELY ON VIRTÚ THAN ON FORTUNE; SUPERHUMAN ORDERS AND HUMAN VIRTÚ; OPPORTUNITY AND FORTUNE
THE HAPPY RESULTS OF PRINCELY VIRTÚSTAND BY YOURSELF AND USE FORCE; A LESSER EXAMPLE OF GREAT VIRTÚ: HIERO OF SYRACUSE; 7: Fortune; HIGH-FLYING PRINCES OF FORTUNE; WHY ACQUIRING BY FORTUNE CREATES FUTURE DIFFICULTIES; HOW TO HOLD WHAT YOU ACQUIRE BY FORTUNE: SWITCH TO RELYING ON VIRTÚ; EXAMPLES: FRANCESCO SFORZA AND CESARE BORGIA; CESARE DECIDES TO GO IT ALONE; PACIFYING ROMAGNA: THE PIECES IN THE PIAZZA OF REMIRRO DE ORCO; HOW VIRTUOUS WERE BORGIA'S FOUNDATIONS?; WHOSE FAULT WAS BORGIA'S FAILURE?; WHY BE IRONIC ABOUT BORGIA?; 8: Crimes; DO PRINCELY CRIMES EVER PAY?
IF CRIMES SOMETIMES PAY, WHY BOTHER TO USE VIRTÚ? - Summary:
- Why did Machiavelli write 'The Prince' - and why did Church and political authorities find it so threatening? 500 years after Machiavelli first told friends that he had written a 'little work' on principalities, this book tries to answer these questions. It offers a chapter-by-chapter reading of 'The Prince' as a masterwork of ironic writing with a moral purpose to teach readers how to recognise hidden dangers in political conduct that appears great or praiseworthy, and in misleading promises of quick and easy solutions to their troubles.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937338088102486
- ISBN:
- 0-19-874680-6
0-19-100392-1
0-19-965363-1 - OCLC Number:
- 867630964
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