Machiavelli on freedom and civil conflict : : an historical and medical approach to political thinking / / by Marie Gaille.

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Superior document:Thinking in extremes ; Volume 2
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Thinking in extremes ; Volume 2.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (170 pages).
Notes:"This is a revised and translated edition of Conflit Civil et Liberte: la Politique Machiavelienne entre Histoire et Medecine, first published in French, in 2004 by Editions Honore Champion."
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Table of Contents:
  • Describing hot societies
  • Tumult in the city: neither to abuse, nor to deride, but to understand
  • On institutions favourable to freedom: Machiavelli's use of humoural theory
  • Corruption and the ethos of freedom
  • Rome, inimitable paradigm
  • Machiavelli as a mirror for contemporary democracy, or how to ruminate on his writings.