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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Form of the State — On Beginnings
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Front Matter
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Machiavelli’s Theory of History: Modes of Encounter between Action and Time
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Front Matter
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The Event of the Republic — The Return to Beginnings
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About this book
This book shows Machiavelli as a philosopher of the modern condition. For him, politics exists in the absence of those absolute moral standards that are called upon to legitimate the domination of man over man. If this understanding lies open to relativism and historicism, it does so in order to render effective the project of reinventing the sense of human freedom. Machiavelli's legacy to modernity is the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality.
Authors and Affiliations
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Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Miguel E. Vatter
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom
Authors: Miguel E. Vatter
Series Title: Topoi Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9337-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6533-4Published: 30 November 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5547-7Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9337-3Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1389-689X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 355
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Science, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, general