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Online-Ressource (333 p)
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9780691154497
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To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, thought it was crucial to republican social and political renewal--but that first it needed to be renewed itself. And without understanding this, Viroli contends, it is impossible to comprehend Machiavelli's thought. Viroli places Machiavelli in the context
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MACHIAVELLI'S GOD; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. The Republican Religion; 2. Machiavelli the Puritan; 3. Machiavelli's Prophecy; CHAPTER ONE - HIS GOD; 1. The Soul and the Fatherland; 2. Republican Christianity; 3. Machiavelli and the Religion of Virtue; 4. Moral and Religious Reform; CHAPTER TWO - THE POWER OF WORDS; 1. Rhetoric and Civil Religion; 2. Machiavelli, Orator; 3. Creator of Myths; 4. His Finest Piece of Oratory; 5. Republican Eloquence and Wisdom; CHAPTER THREE - THE REPUBLIC AND ITS RELIGION; 1. Republican Government and Religion; 2. The Religion of Liberty
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3. Customs and Religion4. Religion, War, and Social Conflict; 5. The Reform of Orders and the Reform of Customs; CHAPTER FOUR - MACHIAVELLI AND THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL REFORMATION OF ITALY; 1. Heresy and Aspirations for Religious Reform; 2. The Difficulties of Survival in Counter-Reformation Italy; 3. The Redemption of Italy and the Idea of Moral Reform in the Writers of the Eighteenth Century; 4. The Risorgimento and the Religion of Liberty; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400835034
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691154497
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Machiavelli's God
Language:
English
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