Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders
a study of the discourses on livy
- Paperback
460 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2001
Summary
Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive study on Machiavelli’s controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy. These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli’s most important work, are thoroughly explained in a chapter-by-chapter commentary by Harvey C. Mansfield, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of this remarkable philosopher.Mansfield’s aim is to discern Machiavelli’s intention in writing the book: he argues that Machiavelli wanted to in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226503707 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226503704 |
| Author: | Harvey C. Mansfield |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 460 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 15mm x 3mm |
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About The Author
Harvey C. Mansfield
Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Machiavelli’s Virtue and has translated The Prince, Discourses on Livy (with Nathan Tarcov), and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (with Delba Winthrop), all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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