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Title Machiavelli and the politics of democratic innovation / Christopher Holman.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (311 pages))
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index.
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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Subject Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Political and social views.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Principe.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. (OCoLC)fst00029240
Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Machiavelli, Niccolò) (OCoLC)fst01363140
Principe (Machiavelli, Niccolò) (OCoLC)fst01356790
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Genre/Form Electonic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Machiavelli and the politics of democratic innovation Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, [2018] 9781487503932 (hbk : alk. paper) (DLC) 2018418417
ISBN 1487519095 (electronic book)
1487531591 (electronic book)
9781487519094 (electronic book)
9781487531591 (electronic book)
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