Publishing the Prince : history, reading, & the birth of political criticism /
Soll, Jacob,1968-
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.
Political theory as textual criticism -- How to teach kings to read history : humanist culture and the disenchantment of absolutist power -- Political power in the archives : from reason of state to critical history -- In the workshop of politics : Amelot de La Houssaye and the methods of unmasking Venice -- How to read a subversive : decoding reason of state of the self -- The Machiavellian reformation : critical technologies of reading and the culture of personal prudence -- An enlightened prince reads Machiavelli, and a philosophe publishes The prince.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
Amelot de La Houssaie, Abraham-Nicolas, sieur, 1634-1706.
Political science
Political science