Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology
Autor Professor Paul Oppenheimeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 oct 2011
Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli is not only one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance, an outstanding author and statesman, but indisputably one of its most influential political theorists, whose fundamental contributions to ideas of political power - as well as to the history of modern drama - remain astonishingly pertinent. His adventurous life led him to notable heights as a diplomat and reformer of the Florentine military, with his replacement of mercenaries by a citizen-militia. His fall, exile and eventual rehabilitation followed as briskly as his rise.
Unlike many innovative thinkers about politics, he developed his radical theories of treachery and social transformation, here explored in terms of their originality, in an atmosphere of violence. Based on his experience of government, his insights led to a shift from understanding statehood, war and society as forms of finitude and stasis to those of process.
All this unfolds in Paul Oppenheimer's compelling recreation of Machiavelli's life as he actually lived it.
Unlike many innovative thinkers about politics, he developed his radical theories of treachery and social transformation, here explored in terms of their originality, in an atmosphere of violence. Based on his experience of government, his insights led to a shift from understanding statehood, war and society as forms of finitude and stasis to those of process.
All this unfolds in Paul Oppenheimer's compelling recreation of Machiavelli's life as he actually lived it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781847252210
ISBN-10: 1847252214
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1847252214
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Oppenheimer is the author of several successful books.
Notă biografică
Paul Oppenheimer is a professor of Comparative Literature at The City College and The Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. He is the author of Rubens: A Portrait, Evil and the Demonic: A New Theory of Monstrous Behaviour and The Birth of the Modern Mind: Self, Consciousness and the Invention of the Sonnet.
Cuprins
List of illustrations \ Preface \ Introduction: Modern Evil and the Sack of Rome \ Part I - Machiavelli and the Changing Universe \ 1. Family and Growing Up \ 2. Early Education \ 3. The Cosmic Package \ 4. Poetry, Music and Militarism \ 5. Murder in the Duomo \ 6. A Boyhood Excursion \ 7. The Lost Years \ 8. Poetry and the Medici \ 9. The Religious Revolution \ Part II - The World of War and Diplomacy \ 10. Executions and an Official Appointment \ 11. Caterina Sforza and the Crisis at Pisa \ 12. The Military Quandary \ 13. On the Move with the French King \ 14. The Long French Patience \ 15. Marriage and a Hint of Cesare Borgia \ 16. Meeting the Captain-General \ 17. Investigating the Sources of Power \ 18. Retribution and Dominance \ 19. Plans to Change the Arno \ 20. The First Journey to Rome \ 21. Cesare's Downfall and the First Decennale \ 22. Anarchy and the Citizen Militia \ 23. The German Enigma \ 24. Victory at Pisa \ 25. A Government Overthrown \ Part III - Into a Tuscan Exile \ 26. The Aftermath of Freedom \ 27. Making History at Sant'Andrea \ 28. Power and Memory \ 29. The Ambush of Love \ 30. Literary Adventures \ 31. Reflecting on the Craft of War \ 32. The Dream of History \ 33. Lights before the Storm \ 34. The Assault on Rome and a Fatal Illness \ Part IV - Epilogue: The Historical Afterglow \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index
Recenzii
There is a good analysis of [Machiavelli's] writings... this is a very scholarly volume... Oppenheimer has painted a vivid portrait of the instability of medieval Florence, which had its parallels in the upheavals of England under the reigns of Henry VIII and his children. The eight pages of black and white plates, mostly of contemporary images and documents, are well chosen. http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Machiavelli:_A_Life_Beyond_Ideology_by_Paul_Oppenheimer
The first scholarly biography of the Italian Renaissance statesman and political theorist for 30 years, Oppenheimer's book compellingly recreates the life of a man who remains relevant to current political thinking.
What Oppenheimer has done, almost miraculously, is to create a biography that is in the strictest and most literary sense "Machiavellian" very much in the spirit and style of its subject.
Oppenheimer is at his best discussing Machiavelli's reforms, and his drive to modernise a government cankered by archaic traditions, inefficiency and baffling levels of cronyism... It makes for a telling biography, one rooted in all the drama and noisy colour or Renaissance Florence.
Author's essay on his book appears in The Coffin Factory A profile of the magazine will appear in the Style section of this Sunday's New York Times. http://thecoffinfactory.com/machiavelli-just-now-by-paul-oppenheimer/
Reviewed in Iranian publication Garavi Gujarat, Vo. 44, No. 2163.
Reviewed in the Literary Review.
The first scholarly biography of the Italian Renaissance statesman and political theorist for 30 years, Oppenheimer's book compellingly recreates the life of a man who remains relevant to current political thinking.
What Oppenheimer has done, almost miraculously, is to create a biography that is in the strictest and most literary sense "Machiavellian" very much in the spirit and style of its subject.
Oppenheimer is at his best discussing Machiavelli's reforms, and his drive to modernise a government cankered by archaic traditions, inefficiency and baffling levels of cronyism... It makes for a telling biography, one rooted in all the drama and noisy colour or Renaissance Florence.
Author's essay on his book appears in The Coffin Factory A profile of the magazine will appear in the Style section of this Sunday's New York Times. http://thecoffinfactory.com/machiavelli-just-now-by-paul-oppenheimer/
Reviewed in Iranian publication Garavi Gujarat, Vo. 44, No. 2163.
Reviewed in the Literary Review.