The Discourses (Classics) |
 enlarge | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Creators: Bernard Crick, Leslie Walker, Brian Richardson
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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ISBN: 0140444289
Dewey Decimal Number: 937
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Publication Date: October 30, 2003
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Customer Reviews:
 A Milestone in Political Philosophy December 9, 2008
Asp
If you want to understand Machiavelli _this_ is the place to look. Of course you should also read the Prince but this is the true centre of gravity for Machiavelli's political philosophy. - It details the design of Republics in great detail and with good parallels to the Roman Republic.
This volume, moreover, comes with a good, polemic introduction.
 If you want to be a politician, this should be your Bible September 1, 2007
M. E. Noone
Being a reader of philosophy and history i have of course stumbed across Machiavelli; his Prince is a fascinating treatise on how to be the perfect dictator. The Discourses is far longer and more complex but all the better for it; its detail and shocking relevence to public affairs is astonishing for a man who spent most of his time either working as a diplomat in Italy or in forced exile from his native Florence. All in all some chapters such as those on Italian war efforts should really in all fairness be ignored but engaging and frequently humourous writing lifts this book above other political philosophies.
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