"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1972, in...(展开全部)

Now in paperback, this highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other republicans. An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (notably law, philosophy, histo...(展开全部)

Now in paperback, this highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other republicans. An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (notably law, philosophy, histo...(展开全部)

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 Machiave...(展开全部)

'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. ‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’ Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Mach...(展开全部)

作者 昆廷•斯金纳　伦敦大学玛丽女王学院巴伯•博蒙特人文科学教授。曾任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授，基督学院研究员。对现代思想史有广泛兴趣，著有作品多部，被译成数种语言，包括两卷本《现代政治思想的起源》（1978，于1979年获沃尔夫森学术奖）、《霍布斯哲学中的理性与修辞》（1996）、《自由主义之前的自由》（1998）、《霍布斯：阿姆斯特丹辩论》（2001，合著）、三卷本《政治学的视野》（2002）、《霍布斯与共和主义自由》（2008）等。 序言作者 任剑涛 　中国人民大学政治学系教授。曾任美国哈佛大学燕京学社、台湾大学人文与社会高等研究院高级访问学者。主要研究领域为政治哲学、西方政治思想史、中国政治。著有《从自在到自觉——中国国民性研究》（1992）、《伦理政治研究——从早期儒学视角的理论透视》（1999）、《中国现代思想脉络中的自由主义》（200...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Arguing that hypocrisy can be constructive and that strictly principled behaviour can be destructive, this book explores the full range of ethical alternatives, distinguishing the various types of hypocrisy and integrity. Drawing on the work of Machiavelli and Rousseau, who both recognized that the irrationalities of human behaviour made totally honest and rational politics imp...(展开全部)

Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. “We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with th...(展开全部)