Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy

New Readings
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-38292-3
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Thinking in Extremes

Machiavelli is chiefly known for The Prince, but his main considerations on politics are found in his later work Discourses on Livy. Despite this book's historical and theoretical importance, its complexity, length and style have often discouraged new readers and interpreters of Machiavelli from engaging with it. For this reason, the Discourses has not been given the attention it deserves. This volume of newly commissioned essays by some of the world’s leading Machiavelli experts seeks to remedy this deficiency. It is the first collective volume dedicated specifically to this profound work, covering topics such as Machiavelli’s republicanism, the relation between liberty and tyranny, the role of religion, Machiavelli’s conception of history, his writing style, his view of society as a plural and conflictive body, his suggestion of how a free state should be organized, and his notions of people and virtù.

Contributors: Jérémie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alessandro Campi, J. Patrick Coby, Marie Gaille, Marco Geuna, Mark Jurdjevic, Cary J. Nederman, Gabriele Pedullà, Diogo Pires Aurélio, Fabio Raimondi, Andre Santos Campos, Miguel Vatter, and Camila Vergara.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aurélio, Diogo Pires

Santos Campos, Andre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Diogo Pires Aurélio and Andre Santos Campos

1 ‘A Never Again Attempted Work’: The Discourse-Form and the Discourses on Livy

Gabriele Pedullà

2 Machiavelli and the Lingering Mystery of Polybius VI

Cary J. Nederman

3 Machiavelli on Liberty

J. Patrick Coby

4 The Discourses on Livy: A ‘Commentary’ on the Effectual Truth of Civil Conflict

Marie Gaille

5 Republic and Constitution in Machiavelli’s Discourses

Fabio Raimondi

6 The Modes Taken by Saint Gregory: Machiavelli and the Violence of Religious Sects

Marco Geuna

7 Machiavelli’s Republican Constituent Power

Camila Vergara

8 Machiavelli and Thucydides on the Rhetoric of Immoralism

Miguel Vatter

9 The ‘Discovery of the Masses’ and the Paradox of the Fatherland

Diogo Pires Aurélio

10 The Poison and the Sword: Conspiracies and Struggle for Power in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy

Alessandro Campi

11 The Political Economy of Machiavelli’s Discourses

Jérémie Barthas

12 Politics of Porosity: War and Freedom in Machiavelli’s Discourses

Thomas Berns

13 Guicciardini’s Considerations on the Discourses of Machiavelli

Mark Jurdjevic

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diogo Pires Aurélio is professor emeritus at the Nova University of Lisbon. He specializes in the history of political thought, more specifically on Renaissance and early modern thinkers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes and Spinoza. Among his publications are the monographs O Mais Natural dos Regimes. Espinosa e a Democracia (Temas & Debates, 2014), Maquiavel & Herdeiros (Temas & Debates, 2012), Razão e violência (Prefácio, 2007) and the edited volumes Sovereign Justice (De Gruyter, 2011) and Terrorism. Politics, Religion and Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2011).

Andre Santos Campos, Ph.D. (2009) is a research fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon. His research concentrates on issues that connect contemporary political theory with jurisprudence and intellectual history. He is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (Palgrave, 2012) and the editor of Challenges to Democratic Participation (Lexington, 2014), Spinoza: Basic Concepts (Imprint Academic, 2015), Spinoza and Law (Routledge, 2016), and Sovereignty as Value (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).