دانلود کتاب Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: New Readings

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Contents
Illustrations
Abbrevations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 ‘Unknown Waters and Lands’
2 ‘The Effectual Truth of the Thing’
3 Machiavellian Moments
4 New Readings
Bibliography
1. ‘A Never Again Attempted Work’: The Discourse-Form and the Discourses on Livy
1 Niccolò Machiavelli: The Modern, the Ancient
2 From Philosophy to History: Machiavelli’s ‘Counterfactual Conditionals’
3 Commenting Livy: Machiavelli’s Political Hermeneutics
4 The Discourse-Form in Early Modern Europe
5 Thomas Hobbes against Machiavelli’s Discourse-Form – and beyond
Bibliography
2. Machiavelli and the Lingering Mystery of Polybius VI
1 The Political Theory of Polybius VI
2 Machiavelli’s Appropriation
3 The Polybian Mystery
Bibliography
3. Machiavelli on Liberty
1 Liberty Defined
2 Liberty Defended
3 Liberty Attacked
4 Middle Ways and Extreme Ways
5 Liberty and Greatness
Bibliography
4. The Discourses on Livy: A ‘Commentary’ on the Effectual Truth of Civil Conflict
1 Descriptive Elements of the Conflicting Sides in the Discourses
1.1 The Antagonism between the People and the Great: The Core Conflict
1.2 The Scope of the Socio-Economic Dimension
1.3 The Description of Conflict in the Discourses in Comparison with The Prince
2 Immersing the Reader into the Dynamics of Conflict
2.1 A Single and Basic Conflict with a Variety of Forms
2.2 A ‘Passionate’ Conflict
2.3 Consistency of the Description of Conflict in the Discourses with The Prince and the Florentine Histories
3 From a Causal Analysis of Conflict to an Assessment of its Consequences
4 Back to the Description of the Conflicting Sides and of the City
4.1 The ‘People’: A Contrasted Vision
4.2 The Body Politic: A ‘Boiling’ and Dynamic Entity Based on the Composition of its ‘Humours’
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
5. Republic and Constitution in Machiavelli’s Discourses
Bibliography
6. ‘The Modes Taken by Saint Gregory’: Machiavelli and the Violence of Religious Sects
1 The Complex Texture of Machiavelli’s Discussion of Religion
2 The ‘Oblivion of Things’ and Its Causes: The Role of Religious Sects
3 Gregory the Great and the Destruction of Ancient Roman Culture: An Attempt at a Genealogy
4 Religion, Idolatry, Violence
5 The ‘Variation’ of the Sects
6 Two Points of View from Which to Look at Religious Phenomena
Bibliography
7. Machiavelli’s Republican Constituent Power
1 Foundings and Kingly Power
2 Corruption and Remodeling
3 Periodic Constituent Power and Extraordinary Politics
4 Republican Constituent Power
Bibliography
8. Machiavelli and Thucydides on the Rhetoric of Immoralism
1 Introduction. Machiavelli, Rhetoric and Evil
2 Machiavelli’s Use of Paradiastole in The Prince: Redefining or Reinterpreting Virtue?
3 Paradiastolic Speech in Thucydides
4 The Immoralism of the Extraordinary in the Discourses on Livy
Bibliography
9. The ‘Discovery of the Masses’ and the Paradox of the Fatherland
1 The King’s Place after the King
2 The Few
3 The Many
4 The People as Fatherland
Bibliography
10. The Poison and the Sword: Conspiracies and Struggle for Power in Machiavelli’s Discourses
1 A Bibliographical Survey
2 A Dangerous Political Practice, a Theoretical Challenge, an Innovative Approach
3 The Conspiracies in the Discourses: An Empirical-Phenomenological Interpretation
4 A Look at The Prince
5 On Conspiracy: A New Subject for Political Science
Bibliography
11. The Political Economy of Machiavelli’s Discourses
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Bibliography
12. Politics of Porosity: War and Freedom in Machiavelli’s Discourses
Bibliography
13. Guicciardini’s Considerations on the Discourses of Machiavelli
1 Guicciardini’s Defence of the Present
2 Guicciardini’s Condemnation of the People
3 Guicciardini Invokes Tradition
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index