Niccolo Machiavelli
1) Der Fürst
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Machiavellis 1513 erstmals erschienene Schrift widmet sich der Frage, wie man in einer feindlichen politischen Umwelt erfolgreich sein, Macht erwerben, diese Macht festigen und sogar noch ausweiten kann. Er beschreibt dabei die bis heute geltenden Mechanismen der Macht ohne jede Illusion und untersucht in schneidender Klarheit jene Notwendigkeiten, die mit dem hirnlosen Wüten eines an der Macht berauschten Tyrannen nichts zu tun haben.
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Maurizio Viroli is professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University, professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, and professor of political communication at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His many books include Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli (Hill & Wang) and How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens (Princeton).
A collection of insightful and revealing quotations on a wide range...
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The description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming. "This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of `virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also...
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Restless Classics presents a trenchant new edition of Machiavelli's most powerful works of political philosophy, including The Prince and selections from Discourses on Livy, introduced by New Yorker writer and biographer of Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson.
Few authors achieve such notoriety that their name becomes an adjective. A "Machiavellian" politician is not simply one who is conniving; the term also refers to a tyrant who is enamored with all the...
5) The Prince
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Àqueles que chegam desavisados ao texto límpido e elegante de Nicolau Maquiavel pode parecer que o autor escreveu, na Florença do século XVI, um manual abstrato para a conduta de um mandatário. Entretanto, esta obra clássica da filosofia moderna, fundadora da ciência política, é fruto da época em que foi concebida.
Em 1513, depois da dissolução do governo republicano de Florença e do retorno da família Médici ao poder, Maquiavel é...
6) Prince, The
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The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with...
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Leadership is a life-changing, three-book collection of abridged classics designed to guide you towards success in all areas of your life. Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince is history's greatest guide to attaining and keeping power; Ralph Waldo Emerson's Power has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it; and it may be said that no greater work on the subject of military...
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Der Staat ist ein Werk des griechischen Philosophen Platon, in dem über die Gerechtigkeit und ihre mögliche Verwirklichung in einem idealen Staat diskutiert wird. An dem fiktiven, literarisch gestalteten Dialog beteiligen sich sieben Personen, darunter...
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"The Complete Strategy Collection, Illustrated" is a comprehensive anthology that brings together some of the most influential and timeless works on strategy and warfare. This captivating collection includes "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli, "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi, "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz, and "Arthashastra" by Chanakya.
In "The Art of War," Sun Tzu's ancient Chinese military treatise,...
10) The discourses
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Political and philosophical commentaries on the republic of ancient Rome from the Renaissance author of The Prince.
In Discourses, Italian statesman, philosopher, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli offers a wide-ranging analysis of the democratic underpinnings of the Roman Republic, based on the epic history written by Roman scholar Titus Livy.