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Tyranny : a new interpretation /
"This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Debate about Ancient and Modern Tyranny; Remarks on Method; I Is There an Ontology of Tyranny?; The Primordial and the Transcendental as Fundamental Perspectives on Political Existence; Education and Imitation: Images of the Soul in Plato's Dialogues; The Modern Point of Departure for the New Science of Politics; The Hobbesian Narrowing of Machiavelli's New Science of Politics; II The Tyrant and the Statesman in Plato's Political Philosophy and Machiavelli's Rejoinder; The Lover of the City; The Hidden Tyrant; The Hidden Founding.
- Paradoxes of the Tyrannical FoundingMachiavelli and the Sophists; III Superlative Virtue, Monarchy, and Political Community in Aristotle's Politics; Monarchy and the Political Community; The Claim of Superlative Virtue in the Debate about Justice; A Godlike Man in the City?; Monarchy, Reason, and Nature; Arendt on the Household and the Community; The Global Household; IV Tyranny and the Science of Ruling in Xenophon's Political Thought; Roads to the Education of Cyrus: The Distinctiveness of Xenophon's Political Thought; Cyrus's Imperialistic Revolution.
- The Peloponnesian War and the Thucydidean ContextV Machiavelli, Xenophon, and Xenophon's Cyrus; Virtue Defined as the Mastery of Fortuna; Cyrus the Great in Machiavelli's Discourses; Subverting the Traditional Catalogue of the Virtues; Machiavelli's Rhetorical Employment of Xenophon in the Appeal to Antiquity; VI Glory and Reputation; How Original Is Machiavelli? The Relationship of Virtue and Fortuna; Sundering Diotima's Ladder: The City of Man, the City of God, and Machiavelli's New Synthesis; The Three Stages of Mastering Fortuna; VII The Republic in Motion.
- The Classical Understanding of Imperialism as a Mode of TyrannyVirtue, Necessity, and Choice in the Founding of Cities; The Cycle of Regimes; The Republic Perfected by Chance; The Rise and Fall of the New Rome; Interlude: Machiavelli and Religion; Conclusion; The Many Faces of Machiavelli; The Two Corridors to Modernity (Dark and Light); The Torture of Nature?; The Phenomenology of Tyranny; The Transition to Totalitarianism and the Will of the People: The Limits of This Study; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.