{"product_id":"machiavellis-the-prince-a-readers-guide-readers-guides-9780826498762","title":"Machiavellis The Prince A Readers Guide Readers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiguel Vatter is Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has written extensively on Machiavelli, republicanism, biopolitics, and political theology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a lively, original and bracing account of Machiavelli’s revolutionary intervention in the history of political thought. In short compass, Vatter deftly explicates Machiavelli’s critique of the classical and medieval natural law tradition, his Lucretian revaluation of contingency, his anticipations of liberal and democratic theory, and his complex attitude towards religion. I enthusiastically recommend this wonderful reader's guide. -- Victoria Kahn, Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003cbr\u003eMiguel Vatter has written an extraordinary, new contribution to Machiavelli studies.  \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli's ‘The Prince’: A Reader’s Guide\u003c\/i\u003e serves both as a remarkably lucid, erudite introductory guide to \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a fresh, penetrating interpretation of the text that will intrigue and enlighten even the most accomplished Machiavelli scholar.  Vatter’s \u003ci\u003eReader’s Guide\u003c\/i\u003e ought to be on the syllabus of every course where the great Florentine’s infamous “little book” is read, and must be on the reading list of any scholar of Machiavelli’s political thought or Renaissance intellectual history today. -- John P. McCormick, University of Chicago, USA\u003cbr\u003eThis is a splendid guide, offering a firm, informed hand across tricky, Machiavellian territory. -- Philip Pettit, Princeton University and the Australian National University\u003cbr\u003eAn outstanding guide to the most fascinating and thought-provoking work written by Machiavelli. Vatter not only masters the most authoritative international scholarship on the Florentine Secretary, but offers very insightful and innovative interpretations of crucial problems of Machiavelli’s political thought. In an illuminating way, he succeeds in reading Machiavelli’s conceptualizations against the background of the Western philosophical tradition, ranging from Plato to Cicero, from Aristotle to Lucretius. * Marco Geuna, Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Abbreviations to the Works of Machiavelli 1. Context: The Renaissance and the Machiavellian “Moment” 2. Overview: The Prince as a Work of Rhetoric and of Philosophy     3. The Seduction of a Prince: Dedication.   4. Acquiring State: chapters 1-6. 5. Securing Society: chapters 7-10. 6. Arming the People: chapters 11-14.  7. The New Prince Goes through the Looking Glass: chapters 15-23. 8. Disarming Fortune and the Arming of Heaven: chapters 24-26. 9. Reception and Influence Notes Notes for Further Reading  Selective Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406192124247,"sku":"9780826498762","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/machiavellis-the-prince-a-readers-guide-readers-guides-9780826498762","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}