Cover
01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter
02.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication
03.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents
04.0_pp_ix_x_Preface
05.0_pp_xi_xii_Abbreviations_and_Editions_Used
06.0_pp_1_18_Introduction
07.0_pp_19_20_Power_Citizenship_Strategies
07.1_pp_21_30_Machiavelli_on_Relationships_Knowledge_of_the_Occasion
07.2_pp_31_53_The_Anatomy_of_an_Error_Machiavellis_Supposed_Commitment_to_a_Citizen_Militia
07.3_pp_54_72_Machiavelli_and_Tyranny
07.4_pp_73_95_Machiavellis_Turn_to_Xenophon
07.5_pp_96_120_Machiavelli_and_the_Solitary_Discipline_of_Hunting
07.6_pp_121_142_To_Give_Reputation_to_One_Machiavelli_the_Populist_and_Other_Variations_on_II_Principe_Chapter_9
08.0_pp_143_144_History
08.1_pp_145_161_Riscontro_Machiavellis_Art_of_History
08.2_pp_162_173_Letters_as_Oracles_Machiavellis_Foresight_in_His_Letters
08.3_pp_174_190_Machiavellis_Lucretia_and_the_Origins_of_the_Roman_Republic_Rape_Gender_and_Founding_Violence
09.0_pp_191_192_Words_and_Dispositions
09.1_pp_193_218_Thinking_with_Animals_Machiavellis_Lasino_and_the_Metamorphoses_of_Power
09.2_pp_219_234_Machiavellian_Rhetoric_Revisited
09.3_pp_235_261_Machiavelli_Reading
09.4_pp_262_278_A_Language_for_Politics_and_a_Language_of_Politics_Words_as_a_Tool_of_Understanding_and_of_Action_in
10.0_pp_279_280_Afterlife
10.1_pp_281_295_Machiavelli_and_Gandhi
10.2_pp_296_315_The_Prince_between_Gramsci_and_Althusser
11.0_pp_316_320_The_Contributors
12.0_pp_321_336_Index

lgrsnf/Machiavelli_Then_and_Now.pdf

Prasanta Chakravarty, Sukanta Chaudhuri

RCOG Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New, 2022

Mobilism

Machiavelli's ideas are as important in our time as in his own. His insights and prescriptions help us make sense of today's political upheavals and natural calamities and reduce them to a working order. The chapters in Machiavelli Then and Now explore Machiavelli's central concerns: statecraft and order, liberty and citizenship, diplomacy and leadership, modes of strategization, the quest for empire - all set against the basic contention between autarchy, oligarchy and democracy. They also address the ethical and behaviourial factors behind political practice, such as force, suasion, ambition, corruption and vigilance in public discourse. The contributors consider the role of language, text and the imagination in Machiavelli, and they also bring the Machiavellian discourse closer to our own times, in relation to Gandhi, Gramsci and Althusser. The book will interest historians, political scientists and students of public policy; philosophers, rhetoricians and literary critics; and no less institution builders, diplomats and, administrators.

"Machiavelli’s ideas are as important in our time as in his own. His insights and prescriptions help us make sense of today’s political upheavals and natural calamities, and reduce them to a working order. The essays in this volume explore Machiavelli’s central concerns: statecraft and order, liberty and citizenship, diplomacy and leadership, modes of strategization, the quest for empire - all set against the basic contention between autarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. They also address the ethical and behaviourial factors behind political practice, such as force, suasion, ambition, corruption, and vigilance in public discourse. Several essays consider the role of language, text, and the imagination in Machiavelli. Two pieces bring the Machiavellian discourse closer to our own times, in relation to Gandhi, Gramsci, and Althusser"-- From back cover

The book explores Machiavelli's central concerns: statecraft and order, liberty and citizenship, diplomacy and leadership, empire and history, set against ethical and behaviorial issues like force, suasion, ambition, corruption and vigilance in public affairs. It should interest historians, diplomats, students of public policy, literary critics.

2023-11-03