Tag: Machiavelli

Free Download Jason P. Blahuta, "Fortune and the Dao: A Comparative Study of Machiavelli, the Daodejing, and the Han Feizi "
English | ISBN: 1498500528 | 2015 | 242 pages | PDF | 1190 KB

Free Download Patricia Vilches, "Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes"
English | ISBN: 1443899771 | 2017 | 350 pages | PDF | 1493 KB

Free Download Christopher Lynch, David Colacci (Narrator), "Machiavelli on War"
English | ASIN: B0CP9ZD2X8 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~14:47:00 | 428 MB
Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian’s treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence’s top official to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli works, the substance of his thoughts, and his own activity as a writer, concluding that he was the first great modern philosopher because he was the first modern philosopher of war.

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Free Download Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2020 | ASIN: B08HJLNTTS | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 22m | 191 MB
Author: Patrick Boucheron | Narrator: Mack Sanderson | Translator: Willard Wood
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.
Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him to pull ourselves out of torpors. But what do we really know about this man apart from the term invented by his detractors to refer to that political evil, Machiavellianism?

Free Download Andrew Moore, "Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics "
English | ISBN: 1498514073 | 2016 | 190 pages | EPUB | 1297 KB
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare’s political outlook by comparing some of the playwright’s best-known works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By situating Shakespeare ‘between’ these two thinkers, the distinctly modern trajectory of the playwright’s work becomes visible. Throughout his career, Shakespeare interrogates the divine right of kings, absolute monarchy, and the metaphor of the body politic. Simultaneously he helps to lay the groundwork for modern politics through his dramatic explorations of consent, liberty, and political violence. We can thus understand Shakespeare’s corpus as a kind of eulogy: a funeral speech dedicated to outmoded and deficient theories of politics. We can also understand him as a revolutionary political thinker who, along with Machiavelli and Hobbes, reimagined the origins and ends of government. All three thinkers understood politics primarily as a response to our mortality. They depict politics as the art of managing and organizing human bodies-caring for their needs, making space for the satisfaction of desires, and protecting them from the threat of violent death. This book features new readings of Shakespeare’s plays that illuminate the playwright’s major political preoccupations and his investment in materialist politics.

Free Download Jun-Hyeok Kwak, "Machiavelli in Northeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 1032256915 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 901 KB
Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia, this book explores a better East-West dialogue through which Machiavelli’s political philosophy can be appropriated properly in Northeast Asian practices.

Free Download Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009320122 | 297 Pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
Machiavelli is said to be a Renaissance thinker, yet in a notable phrase he invented, ‘the effectual truth,’ he attacked the high-sounding humanism typical of the Renaissance, while mounting a conspiracy against the classical and Christian values of his time. In Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth this overlooked phrase is studied and explained for the first time. The upshot of ‘effectual truth’ for any individual is to not depend on anyone or anything outside yourself to keep you free and secure. Mansfield argues that this phrase reveals Machiavelli’s approach to modern science, with its focus on the efficient cause and concern for fact. He inquires into the effect Machiavelli expected from his own writings, who believed his philosophy would have an effect that future philosophers could not ignore. His plan, according to Mansfield, was to bring about a desired effect and thus to create his own future and ours.

Free Download Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B071L26GWK | 2017 | 13 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 385 MB
Author: Erica Benner
Narrator: Karen Saltus
The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli – arguably the most misunderstood thinker of all time – fought to change his corrupt world. Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner sets the record straight: far from the ruthless "Machiavellian" henchman that people think he was, Machiavelli emerges here as a profound ethical thinker who fought to uphold high moral standards and restore the democratic freedoms of his beloved Florence. Shaking the dust from history, Benner masterfully interweaves Machiavelli’s words with those of his friends and enemies, giving us a biography with all the energy of fiction. Through dialogues and diaries, we witness dramatic episodes, including Savonarola’s fiery sermons against the elite in Florence’s piazza, Machiavelli’s secret negotiations with Caterina Sforza at the court of Forlí, and the Florentines’ frantic preparations to resist Pope Julius’s plan to overthrow their Republic.