Title: Machiavelli's legacy : The Prince after five hundred years /
Authors: Fuller, Timothy, 1940-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolò; Machiavelli, Niccolò,; Principe (Machiavelli, Niccolò); Politische Theorie; Rezeption; Political science Philosophy; Political science Philosophy; De vorst (Machiavelli)
Abstract: Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual of instruction on certain aspects of princely rule and behavior, The Prince anticipates and complicates modern political and philosophical questions. What is the right order of society? Can Western politics still be the model for progress toward peace and prosperity, or does our freedom to create our individual purposes and pursuits undermine our public responsibilities? Are the characteristics of our politics markedly different, for better or for worse, than the politics of earlier eras? Machiavelli argues that there is no ideal, transcendent order to which one can conform, and that the right order is merely the one that has the capacity to persist over time.^
Contents: Ch. 1. Machiavelli's enterprise / Harvey C. Mansfield -- ch. 2. The Redeeming prince / Maurizio Viroli -- ch. 3. Machiavelli's revolution in thought / Catherine Heidt Zuckert -- ch. 4. Machiavelli's women / Carlene W. Saxonhouse -- ch. 5. Machiavelli and the business of politics / David Wootton -- ch. 6. Machiavelli and Machiavellianism / David C. Hendrickson -- ch. 7. Machiavelli's Prince : an Americanist perspective / Thomas E. Cronin -- ch. 8. The riddle of Cesare Borgia and the legacy of Machiavelli's Prince / Clifford Orwin.