• Media type: Book
  • Title: Tyranny : a new interpretation
  • Contains: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; Introduction: the conquest of eros; 1. The ontology of tyranny; 2. The tyrant and the statesman in Plato's political philosophy and Machiavelli's rejoinder; 3. Superlative virtue, monarchy, and political community in Aristotle's Politics; 4. Tyranny and the art of ruling in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus; 5. Machiavelli, Xenophon, and Xenophon's Cyrus; 6. Glory and reputation: Machiavelli's new prince; 7. The republic in motion: Machiavelli's vision of the new Rome; Conclusion: tyranny ancient and modern; Epilogue: the hermaneutical problem of tyranny; Bibliography.
    Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; Introduction: the conquest of eros; 1. The ontology of tyranny; 2. The tyrant and the statesman in Plato's political philosophy and Machiavelli's rejoinder; 3. Superlative virtue, monarchy, and political community in Aristotle's Politics; 4. Tyranny and the art of ruling in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus; 5. Machiavelli, Xenophon, and Xenophon's Cyrus; 6. Glory and reputation: Machiavelli's new prince; 7. The republic in motion: Machiavelli's vision of the new Rome; Conclusion: tyranny ancient and modern; Epilogue: the hermaneutical problem of tyranny; Bibliography.
  • Contributor: Newell, Waller Randy [Author]
  • imprint: Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013
  • Extent: X, 544 S.; 23 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781107010321; 9781107610736
  • RVK notation: MC 4570 : Monarchomachen
    ME 2600 : Diktatur, Despotismus
    MC 1000 : Allgemeines
    CC 7300 : Geschichte der Rechts-, Gesellschafts- und Staatsphilosophie
  • Keywords: Tyrann > Despotie > Politische Philosophie > Diktatur
    Geschichte
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: "This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought"--

    "This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought"--

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