Machiavelli on liberty and conflict / edited by David C. Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara.

Contributor Johnston, David, 1951- editor.

Imprint:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Descriptionvi, 423 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note:Papers from a conference held 6-7 December 2013 at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Prince.

Note:Introduction / David C. Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara -- Between antiquity and modernity. Machiavelli on necessity / Harvey C. Mansfield -- Machiavelli on good and evil: the problem of dirty hands revisited / Giovanni Giorgini -- Machiavelli and the critics of Rome: rereading Discourses I.4 / Gabriele Pedullà -- Machiavelli, "ancient theology," and the problem of civil religion / Miguel Vatter -- The Prince and the politics of necessity. Machiavelli and the misunderstanding of princely virtù / Quentin Skinner -- The necessity to be not-good: Machiavelli's two realisms / Erica Benner -- Loyalty in adversity / Stephen Holmes -- Machiavelli and the modern tyrant / Paul A. Rahe -- Class struggle, financial power, and extraordinary authority in the republic. Machiavelli and the Gracchi: Republican liberty and class conflict / Benedetto Fontana -- Machiavelli, the republic, and the financial crisis / Jérémie Barthas -- Extraordinary accidents in the life of republics: Machiavelli and dictatorial authority / Marco Geuna -- Machiavellian politics beyond Machiavelli. The reception of Machiavelli in contemporary Republicanism: some ambiguities and paradoxes / Jean-Fabien Spitz -- On the myth of the conservative turn in Machiavelli's Florentine histories / John P. McCormick -- Political imagination, conflict, and democracy: Machiavelli's republican realism / Luca Baccelli -- "Armi proprie e improprie" in the work of some representative Italian readers of the twentieth century / Michele Battini -- What does a "conjuncture-embedded" reflection mean? The legacy of Althusser's Machiavelli to contemporary political theory / Marie Gaille.

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