Machiavelli and Political Conspiracies
Subtitle: The Struggle for Power in the Italian Renaissance
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781138624108
Subjects: Machiavelli, niccolo, 1469-1527; Conspiracy; Italy, politics and government
Description: "The theme of conspiracies plays a key role in Machiavelli's writings, in which can be found considerations and analyses on the use of conspiracy as an instrument of conquest of power, and as a technique for political fighting. This volume denies an interpretation in which Machiavelli limited himself to warning against conspiracies, judging them as a dangerous and useless tool. In reality, he elaborated a real phenomenology or anatomy of the conspiracy. His thoughts on this theme represent a practical manual for the "coup d'e tat" and the violent seizure of power. But as always, they also contain brilliant intuitions on political psychology, the sociology of power, and social anthropology"--