Machiavelli has been among the most commented upon, criticised and feared thinkers of the modern world. Infamous for his support of brutality and repression as valid political instruments, he is often
Rene Konig verfasste sein Buch uber Machiavelli in einer Lebensphase, die ihm selbst als personliche und epochale Zeitenwende erschien. Erstmals 1941 in der schweizerischen Emigration veroffentlicht,
Reopening the question of Machiavelli’s relationship to neoclassical, humanist, and republican thought (“civic humanism”), Hulliung questions scholars’ perceptions of Machiavelli as a misunderstood hu
Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist.
Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his
From a former close advisor to Tony Blair, a devastating, frank and insightful analysis of how power is wielded in the modern world.'Niccolo Machiavelli is misunderstood,' argues Jonathan Powell in hi
