Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation / Christopher Holman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
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  • computer
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ISBN:
  • 9781487531591
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Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.
Summary: This book critically reevaluates the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, demonstrating the extent to which he can be seen to formulate a unique ethical foundation for democratic practice that is grounded in the creative orientation of all individuals.
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Introduction -- Part one: Methodology -- Machiavelli and the constellative move of historical appropriation -- Part two: Philosophical Anthropology -- The contingency of being: on worldly and human indetermination -- Politics and the human essence: The prince as a model of human subjectivity -- Part three: Political Ontology -- Ambition and the people: the popular form of the desire for creation -- Social equality and the contingent being of the great -- Institutionalizing ambitious expression: the republic as the self-overcoming regime.

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This book critically reevaluates the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, demonstrating the extent to which he can be seen to formulate a unique ethical foundation for democratic practice that is grounded in the creative orientation of all individuals.

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