A new reading of Machiavelli's major works that demonstrates how he has been previously misread
To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccol Machiavelli's three major political works--The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine Histories--and demonstrates that a radically democratic populism seeded the Florentine's scandalous writings. John McCormick challenges the misguided understandings of Machiavelli set forth by prominent thinkers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and representatives of the Straussian and Cambridge schools, and he emphasizes the fundamental, often unacknowledged elements of a vibrant Machiavellian politics. Advancing fresh readings of Machiavelli's work, this book presents a new outlook for how politics should be conceptualized and practiced.
Автор: Phillip G. Payne Название: Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding`s Scandalous Legacy ISBN: 082141819X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821418192 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 26300.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G. Harding, is our sinner. Prior to the Nixon administration, the Harding scandals were the most infamous of the twentieth century. Harding is consistently judged a failure, ranking dead last among his peers.By
Автор: Phillip G. Payne Название: Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding`s Scandalous Legacy ISBN: 0821418181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821418185 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 51480.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G. Harding, is our sinner. Prior to the Nixon administration, the Harding scandals were the most infamous of the twentieth century. Harding is consistently judged a failure, ranking dead last among his peers.By
Автор: Ling Alex Название: Scandalous Times: Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy ISBN: 1350068551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350068551 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 206910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in 'revelatory' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, 'truth'. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism.
Yet these 'ordinary' scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Timesnot only argues the case for such 'real scandal', but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy.
From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this 'static' fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy
Автор: Ellison Betty Boles Название: Rachel Donelson Jackson: The Scandalous Life of the First Lady Who Never Was ISBN: 1476670188 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476670188 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 40650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A biography of Rachel Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, that delves into how the relatively forgotten figure rebelled against the 18th-century restraints on women and overcame many personal tragedies to become an inspirational figure of persistence and strength.
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