Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology
Oppenheimer, Paul
From St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since February 3, 1999
From St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since February 3, 1999
About this Item
1st edition hardback copy in jacket. 0.5 cm tear to front cover, sealed at back with scotchtape. Vg+ condition in all other respects. 8vo size. Seller Inventory # 044904
Bibliographic Details
Title: Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology
Publisher: Continuum, London
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
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.
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.
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