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Exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli's political vision was formed, Mikael Hornqvist stresses the classical and rhetorical character of Machiavelli's thought. He analyzes his preoccupation with glory and liberality in relation to the revival of Roman ideas of triumphalism. The result is a revealing account of the formation of Machiavelli's characteristic preoccupations.
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Mikael Hörnqvist teaches in the Department of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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Condition: Gut. XI, 302 Seiten / p. Einband minimal berieben, innen sehr gut und sauber / Cover lightly rubbed, internally good and clean For his many disciples and followers, Machiavellis work would come to serve as an inexhaustible source of worldly wisdom, a storehouse of cynical maxims, and a fundamental link back to classical political philosophy. It offered an antidote to wishful thinking and a rite of initiation into the arcana imperii and the art of rhetorical manipulation. These new Machiavellians would in his overall theory also find many things on which to improve. While they accepted his general premises, the rise of capitalism, the discoveries of modern science, and the continuous progress in technology allowed them to draw other conclusions from them. The insight that trade, technical innovations, and capital investments may lead to global economic growth made obsolete the Florentines zero-sum view of the world, but at the same time strengthened his claim that the pursuit of self-interest may contribute to the public good. Important advances in the applied sciences and in military technology made outmoded his all-inclusive Roman model, but at the same time provided the moderns with new powerful means to realize the time-honored aims of the Roman republican tradition, liberty and empire. In a similar way, the physics of Galileo Galilei, by establishing the unity of matter and by eliminating the division between the sublunar and the supralunar spheres, not only tore to pieces the Aristotelian cosmology, to which Machiavelli and most of his contemporaries had subscribed, but also gave added weight to the Florentine Secretarys focus on the mundane, sublunar realm and on worldly affairs in general. -- As the traditional and pre-modern framework of Machiavellis theory fell away, almost like a cardboard stage set, dissolved and vanished, it became apparent that many of his general assumptions, stereotypes, and preconceptions did carry surprisingly little weight in his thought. Dislodged from its Florentine context and its contemporary trappings, the core of Machiavellis theory - his exclusive focus on cose del mondo, his view of human nature as desiring, acquisitive, and expansive, and his uncompromising rejection of the status quo in all respects and in all areas - revealed itself to constitute a dynamic, emerging, and ever-developing historical force, which has later come to be known by the name of modernity. By unchaining mans desire for acquisition and love of liberty, his desiderare di acquistare and his affezione del vivere libero, Machiavelli had created a power destined to put an end to centuries of backwardness, obscurantism and opression. ISBN 9780521839457 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650 Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag / Originalhardcover with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1231650
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