Critical editions of the early modern Spanish translations of
Machiavelli provide a privileged insight into the multiple ways in which Spaniards, particularly those associated with the imperial court, read, interpreted, and adapted this important political writer to their own political contexts, says Howard.
So, in keeping with this noble tradition, I offer a quote from
Machiavelli which is of some relevance to the Deputy President, Dr William Ruto, who - depending on whom you believe - is either on an easy cruise to victory in the 2022 presidential election, or else, so deeply compromised that he has effectively lost this race already.
The dominant scholarly approaches to
Machiavelli have divided over the extent of his innovation and the scope of his ambition.
Interrogating the established reception of
Machiavelli's work by such readers as Rousseau, Leo Strauss, Quentin Skinner, and J.G.A.
Cloth, $ 110.00--Harding presents a new reading of
Machiavelli in light of Heidegger and two post-Heideggerian authors, Jacques Derrida and Rene Giraud.
Centuries before the popularity of contemporary research and writings on the influence of culture on management,
Machiavelli (1469-1527) took into account the requirement of the time in the preparation of his books.
Although
Machiavelli did not explicitly refer to metis (or cunning rationality), the fox's attribution as an essential feature of the prince's rationality (
Machiavelli, 1998 [1515], XVIII) allows for an understanding of Machiavellian political rationality as metis.
How to Choose a Leader:
Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens
Be Like the Fox:
Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Fuller, Timothy, ed.,
Machiavelli's Legacy: 'The Prince' After Five Hundred Years, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; cloth; pp.
A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in
Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought.
What is there left to say about Niccolo
Machiavelli? We are amid a flurry of anniversaries marking five hundred years since important milestones in
Machiavelli's life.
