Machiavelli's Prince : a new reading

Machiavelli's Prince : a new reading / Erica Benner.

Why did Machiavelli write 'The Prince' - and why did Church and political authorities find it so threatening? 500 years after Machiavelli first told friends that he had written a 'little work' on principalities, this book tries to answer these questions. It offers a chapter-by-ch...

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Main Author: Benner, Erica (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527. > Principe.
Principe (Machiavelli, Niccolò)
Political science > Early works to 1800.
Political science
Early works
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:Why did Machiavelli write 'The Prince' - and why did Church and political authorities find it so threatening? 500 years after Machiavelli first told friends that he had written a 'little work' on principalities, this book tries to answer these questions. It offers a chapter-by-chapter reading of 'The Prince' as a masterwork of ironic writing with a moral purpose to teach readers how to recognise hidden dangers in political conduct that appears great or praiseworthy, and in misleading promises of quick and easy solutions to their troubles.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191769405
0191769401
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2013).

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