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Auteur(s) : Levy, David N. (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Wily elites and spirited peoples in Machiavelli's republicanism [Texte imprimé] / David N. Levy
Publication : Lanham (Md.) : Lexington books, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : XV-149 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : From class conflict, liberty ; War, empire and democracy ; Corruption: its causes,
uses and remedies ; The princely republic.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 141-144. Index
"Niccolò Machiavelli, though best known as a teacher of princes, is also a teacher
of republics. In his Discourses on Livy, he argues that republican liberty depends
upon a contentious mixture of elitism and populism. Only the elite's wily pursuit
of domination, combined with the people's spirited resistance to such domination,
can produce that compromise between servitude and license known as liberty. The task
of the founder and the statesman is to construct and maintain the appropriate "orders
and modes" within which each party to the conflict can make its appropriate contribution.
The elite, at its best, contributes prudence, military virtue, and the capacity to
innovate, while the people contributes moral and political stability. David Levy explains
and defends Machiavelli's conception of liberty as conflict, and then uses that conception
as the lens through which to understand his views on religion, war and imperialism,
goodness and corruption, and the relation between republics and princes. Also discussed
is Machiavelli's own kind of wiliness: his artful and often ironic mode of writing.
Levy shows that Machiavelli's republican teaching as a whole remains persuasive today,
and deserves careful consideration by all those concerned with the survival and the
success of liberty." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Machiavel (1469-1527) -- Critique et interprétation
Républicanisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780739186404. - ISBN 073918640X (rel.). - ISBN 9780739186411 (erroné) (electronic)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43839131m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43839131
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