Machiavelli in tumult : the discourses on Livy and the origins of political conflictualism

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Machiavelli in tumult : the discourses on Livy and the origins of political conflictualism

Gabriele Pedullà ; translated by Patricia Gaborik and Richard Nybakken, revised and updated by the author

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Translation of: Machiavelli in tumulto : conquista, cittadinanza e conflitto nei "Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio" / Gabriele Pedullà. -- Roma : Bulzoni, 2011)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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

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