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England
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Folger call number: JC143.M163 P4313 2018
Folger holdings ID: 504396
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General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Concordia parvae res crescunt : the humanistic backdrop -- "A necessary inconvenience" : the demystification of political concord -- From philosophy to history -- "Relishing the savor" vs. "hearing" -- Battles over chronologies -- Tumults, tribunes and mixed government -- Tumults and humors -- The modes of tumults -- Between friends and enemies -- The aims of tumults -- Fear and virtue : the rebuttal to humanistic pedagogy -- A precarious freedom -- The fragility of virtuousness -- Terror : the greatest master there is -- The many faces of fear -- The empty throne -- "The guard of liberty" : the rejection of Aristotelian balance -- Checks without balance -- Two or three? -- A skeptical populism -- "Giving the foreigners citizenship" : an expansionist republicanism -- A humanistic theory of citizenship? -- The Roman model -- The Aristotelian model -- Conquest or concord? -- Reviving Roman expansionism -- Dionysius' reappearance : the classical roots of modern conflictualism -- In the footsteps of Polybius? -- Dionysius: mixed government and Roman tumults -- Dionysius : dictatorship and Roman tumults -- Dionysius : citizenship and Roman tumults -- Dionysius and/or Livy -- Remembering the conflict : Machiavelli's legacy -- Between Aristotle and Hobbes -- A third paradigm? (1531-1789) -- Conflict remembered (1789-2000) -- Machiavelli and us
Also known as
Extended title: Machiavelli in tumult : the discourses on Livy and the origins of political conflictualism / Gabriele Pedullà ; translated by Patricia Gaborik and Richard Nybakken, revised and updated by the author