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Wily Elites and Spirited Peoples in Machiavelli's Republicanism (Paperback)
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Wily Elites and Spirited Peoples in Machiavelli's Republicanism (Paperback)
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Niccolo Machiavelli, though best known as a teacher of princes, is
also a teacher of republics. In his Discourses on Livy, he argues
that republican liberty depends upon a contentious mixture of
elitism and populism. Only the elite's wily pursuit of domination,
combined with the people's spirited resistance to such domination,
can produce that compromise between servitude and license known as
liberty. The task of the founder and the statesman is to construct
and maintain the appropriate "orders and modes" within which each
party to the conflict can make its appropriate contribution. The
elite, at its best, contributes prudence, military virtue, and the
capacity to innovate, while the people contributes moral and
political stability. David Levy explains and defends Machiavelli's
conception of liberty as conflict, and then uses that conception as
the lens through which to understand his views on religion, war and
imperialism, goodness and corruption, and the relation between
republics and princes. Also discussed is Machiavelli's own kind of
wiliness: his artful and often ironic mode of writing. Levy shows
that Machiavelli's republican teaching as a whole remains
persuasive today, and deserves careful consideration by all those
concerned with the survival and the success of liberty. This book
will be of interest both to beginning and more advanced students of
Machiavelli, as well as to students of modern republicanism and of
the history of ideas.
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