This is a revised and translated edition of Conflit civil et liberté : la politique machiavélienne entre histoire et médecine, first published in French, in 2004 by Éditions Honoré Champion.
"All interested in political theory of the Renaissance era, its relationship to antiquity, and its terminology and frames of thought, as well as anyone concerned with the sources of contemporary thought about democracy".
:: Brill
:: 23/07/2018
:: xxii, 170 pp.
:: Langue : anglais
:: ISBN : 9789004376014
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Matters of Method
1 Describing Hot Societies
2 Tumult in the City: Neither to Abuse, Nor to Deride, but to Understand
3 On Institutions Favourable to Freedom: Machiavelli’s Use of Humoural Theory
4 Corruption and the Ethos of Freedom
5 Rome, Inimitable Paradigm
6 Machiavelli as a Mirror for Contemporary Democracy, or How to Ruminate on His Writings
Bibliography
Index
