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A prince must acquire the nature of both; if he possesses the qualities of one without the other, he will be lost,” early-Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli counseled half a millennium ago.
“A PRINCE must acquire the nature of both; if he possesses the qualities of one without the other, he will be lost,” early Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli counselled half a millennium ag ...
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Are we reading Machiavelli wrong?There are very few philosophers who become part of popular culture, and often, if their ideas become influential, people don’t know where they came from. Niccolò Machiavelli, the great 16th ...
Guest: Corinna Barrett Lain is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. She is the author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of ...
I invited Benner onto The Gray Area to talk about what Machiavelli was up to and why he’s very much a philosopher for our times. As always, there’s much more in the full podcast, so listen and ...
Most scholars would agree that the popular image is a distortion of the real Niccolò Machiavelli’s ideas. In Be Like the Fox Erica Benner brings to life a Machiavelli who’s a man of considerable ...
In order to distinguish between what is lubricum in the mind of the reader and what is lubricum in Machiavelli’s text, Schoppe argues, the reader must remain aware of four criteria: first, the general ...
Stephen Joyce, James Joyce's grandson, describes himself as 'a Joyce but not a Joycean'. A similar claim could have been made by Niccolò Machiavelli. This highly readable new short biography shows ...
Professor Zaretsky teaches courses in modern French and European history, ranging from perspectives on the Enlightenment to everyday life in Occupied Europe, and from the modern experience of exile to ...
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