Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15877-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

The thought and influence of Machiavelli have had a significant impact on a variety of academic disciplines, including political science and government, history, literature, language, theatre, and philosophy. Rather than inscribe Machiavelli within the boundaries of a single academic approach, tradition, or discourse, this volume assembles multidisciplinary perspectives on his writings on government, on his creative works, and on his legacy. The result is intended to appeal at once to generalists seeking baseline knowledge of Machiavelli and to specialists who are interested in critical views of Machiavelli that use a broad lens and that approach their subject from different angles.

Contributors include: Susan Ashley, Salvatore Bizzarro, Julia Bondanella, JoAnn Cavallo, Salvatore Di Maria, Marie Gaille-Nikodimov, Eugene Garver, Joseph Khoury, William Klein, Sante Matteo, Gerry Milligan, RoseAnna Mueller, John Roe, Gerald Seaman, Charles Tarlton, Patricia Vilches, and Mary Walsh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vilches, Patricia

Seaman, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Preface, Acknowledgements, Notes on Contributors
Editors Introduction. The Enduring Power of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Overview of his Life and Times (Patricia Vilches)
Part I. Government
An Introduction to The Prince. Edited and translated by Gerald Seaman (Marie Gaille-Nikodimov)
The Prince as Literary Text (Charles Tarlton)
The Discourses on Livy: Preserving a Free Way of Life (Julia Bondanella)
Machiavelli: Rhetoric and Prudence (Eugene Garver)
Part II. Society
Machiavelli and Women (JoAnn Cavallo)
Machiavelli and Masculinity (Gerry Milligan)
Machiavelli on Stage: Mandragola and Clizia (Salvatore Di Maria)
Debauchery, Mayhem, and Sex in Machiavelli’s Mandragola (Salvino Bizzaro)
The Mask in the Mirror: Nicomaco as an Imprudent Ruler-Prince in the Clizia (Patricia Vilches)
To Hell with Men and Meaning! Vesting Authority in Belfagor (Sante Matteo)
Part III. Reception
Historical Reception of Machiavelli (Mary Walsh)
Machiavelli the Revolutionary (Susan Ashley)
Marlowe’s Tamburlaine: Idealized Machiavellian Prince (Joseph Khoury)
Machiavelli and Shakespeare (John Roe)
Machiavelli, Thucydides, and the Anglo-American Tradition (William Klein)
Machiavelli in the Modern World (RoseAnna Mueller)
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Vilches, Ph.D. (1992) in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University. She has published and presented extensively on Machiavelli and early modern Spanish and Italian literature.
Gerald Seaman, Ph.D. (1992) in French Literature, Stanford University, is Dean of Faculty and Professor of Romance and Classical Languages at Ripon College. His previous work includes publications on medieval and early modern French literature.