| Description | | - Machiavelli's recommendation for the conduct of political leaders hold an enduring fascination
- His best-known work, The Prince is still widely read
- Quentin Skinner's introduction has been praised as 'compulsive reading'
- First published as part of the Past Masters series; life sales 19,000 copies
- Now reissued as a Very Short Introduction, along with other new philosophy titles in the series.
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Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner focuses on three major works, The Prince
, the Discourses
, and The History of Florence
, and distils from them an introduction to
Machiavelli's doctrines of exemplary clarity.
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| Contents |
Introduction; 1. The Diplomat; 2. The Adviser to Princes; 3. The Philosopher of Liberty; 4. The Historian of Florence.
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
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