Machiavelli's Three Romes

Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed

Vickie B. Sullivan IV (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2020
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4784-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a wholly new way. In this illuminating study, Sullivan shows Machiavelli's thought to be a highly original response to what he understood to be the crisis of his times.

Autor

Vickie B. Sullivan is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Note on Texts Cited

Introduction

Part I: Christian Rome

1. The Church and Machiavelli's Depiction of Italy's Historical Situation

2. The Ravages of Christianity

Part II: Pagan Rome

3. The Foundation for Tyranny in Rome

4. Corruption, Youth, and Foreign Influences

5. Machiavelli's Ambiguous Praise of Paganism

Part III: Machiavelli's New Rome

6. Old Lands and Machiavelli's New One

7. A Temporal Christianity and the Princes of the Republic

8. Machiavelli's Rule and Human Liberty

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-4784-3 / 1501747843
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4784-7 / 9781501747847
• Zustand: Neuware