| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2018) |
| Subject |
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio
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Livy. Ab urbe condita.
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| SUBJECT |
Ab urbe condita (Livy) fast |
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Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Machiavelli, Niccolò) fast |
| Subject |
Political science -- Early works to 1800.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Political science
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316829974 |
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1316829979 |
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9781316822562 |
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1316822567 |
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