Machiavelli's Virtue
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Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought."The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."—Hadley Arkes, New Criterion"Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands."—Colin Walters, Washington Times"[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation."—Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal Roger Kimball [A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, stateman and political philosopher. . . . Mr. Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation. -- Wall Street Journal
AbbreviationsPreface1Machiavelli's Virtue62Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities573Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics794Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress1095An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories1276Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories1377An Introduction to The Prince1768An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War1919Strauss's Machiavelli21910Machiavelli's New Regime23511Machiavelli's Political Science25812Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State28113Machiavelli and the Modern Executive295Notes315Bibliography351Index361
