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Book Dalla politica alla ragion di stato

Download or read book Dalla politica alla ragion di stato written by Maurizio Viroli and published by Donzelli Editore. This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy written by Marco Sgarbi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 3618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Book Conflict  Power  and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza

Download or read book Conflict Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza written by Filippo Del Lucchese and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza explores Spinoza's political philosophy by confronting it with that of Niccolò Machiavelli. Filippo Del Lucchese conducts a study of the relationship between Machiavelli and Spinoza from a perspective at once philosophical, historical and political. The book begins by showing how closely tied the two thinkers are in relation to realism. Del Lucchese then goes on to examine the theme of conflict as a crucial element of an understanding of Machiavelli and Spinoza's conceptions of modernity. The book concludes with an examination of the concept of 'multiplicity' and 'plural' expressions of politics, namely Machiavelli's popolo and Spinoza's multitudo. Overall, the Machiavelli-Spinoza axis offers a fruitful perspective through which to analyse the relationship between contending ideas of modernity from a historical point of view, and provides an original point of departure for discussing some key theoretical, political and juridical notions that have resurfaced in contemporary debates.

Book Machiavellism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Friedrich Meinecke
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 1560009705
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Machiavellism written by Friedrich Meinecke and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lengthy introduction by the eminent sociologist Werner Stark provides a framework for understanding not just the importance of a singular thinker, but also the entire fabric of German history from Bismarck, the Kaiser, the Weimar Republic, and Nazism, to the post-World War II effort at the cultural, no less than material reconstruction of a democratic Germany.

Book Shakespeare s Foreign Worlds

Download or read book Shakespeare s Foreign Worlds written by Carole Levin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

Book Machiavellism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathaniel Pallone
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351508067
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Machiavellism written by Nathaniel Pallone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a study, by a recognized master in the field of intellectual history, of the challenge put by Machiavelli to the idea that there is a universal moral law governing human behavior. Should the political leader act according to the maxim of "my country right or wrong," or should elites follow the principle of "let justice be done?" Friederich Meinecke, an acknowledged founder of cultural history as a field, follows the discussion of this theme from Machiavelli through such major figures as Richelieu, Frederick the Great, and Hegel, and presents conclusions of enduring significance.

Book Storia sociale e politica

Download or read book Storia sociale e politica written by Rosario Villari and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2007 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Antonietta Visceglia, Politica e regalità femminile nell'Europa della prima età moderna.Qualche riflessione comparativa sul ruolo delle regine consorti;Luis Ribot García, Revueltas urbanas en Sicilia (siglos XVI-XVII);Giovanni Muto, Fedeltà e patria nel lessico politico napoletano della prima età moderna;Gérard Delille, Parenté et politique: le reversement des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles;Giuseppe Talamo, Tra fedeltà al Governo e ubbidienza al papa;Adrian Lyttelton, Le origini di una monarchia nazionale: tradizione e innovazione nel culto di Casa Savoia durante il Risorgimento;Giuseppe Giarrizzo, Siciliani fuori di Sicilia;Michele Ciliberto, Croce: e Gentile: elogio di un'amicizia;Franco Pitocco, La storia tra scienza e letteratura (cioè: non scienza!). Appunti su H. White e il Linguistic Turn per un corso mai tenuto su "La crisi della storia"; Herman Van der Wee, Flessibilità e crescita: la storia economica allo specchio del passato; Albertina Vittoria, "Leggi nei margini bianchi di questa pagina": Girolamo Sotgiu e gli "amici pedanti";Giorgio Caredda, Il declino e l'impero;Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism in the New Century; Indice dei nomi.

Book State  Culture and Life Modes

Download or read book State Culture and Life Modes written by Thomas Højrup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. This book offers a challenging new approach to social theory, building on the concept of life-modes. Thomas Hojrup invites us to look at cultural analysis within a state perspective. He develops a mode of analysis based on principles of structural dialectics inspired by Aristotle, Leibniz, Bachelard and Hjelmslev. In doing so he offers a fresh perspective on classical theoretical problems in both the social sciences and humanities, a perspective which allows us to think beyond some of the dominant paradigms of these disciplines. The book is addressed to scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in new solutions to some of the fundamental theoretical problems concerning state, society and culture.

Book Aristotelismo politico e ragion di Stato

Download or read book Aristotelismo politico e ragion di Stato written by Artemio Enzo Baldini and published by Olschki. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jesuits

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W. O'Malley
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2016-01-28
  • ISBN : 1487511930
  • Pages : 804 pages

Download or read book The Jesuits written by John W. O'Malley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the importance of the Society in many sectors, including those related to the sciences and the arts. They have also looked at the Jesuits as emblematic of certain traits of early modern Europeans, especially as those Europeans interacted with 'the Other' in Asia and the Americas. Originating in an international conference held at Boston College in 1997, the thirty-five essays here reflect this new historiographical trend. Focusing on the Old Society- the Society before its suppression in 1773 by papal edict- they examine the worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy, natural history, public performance, and education, and they give special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures, in North and South America, China, India, and the Philippines. A picture emerges not only of the individual Jesuit, who might be missionary, diplomat, architect, and playwright over the course of his life in the Society, but also of the immense and many-faceted Jesuit enterprise as forming a kind of 'cultural ecosystem'. The Jesuits of the Old Society liked to think they had a way of proceeding special to themselves. The question, Was there a Jesuit style, a Jesuit corporate culture? is the thread that runs through this interdisciplinary collection of studies.

Book Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy written by Christine Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by political principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in practice. This wide-ranging comparative survey examines these political principles, as expressed in sources such as council debates, preambles to legislation and official correspondence, in the mid-fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth century Italy. Focusing especially on the five republics - Florence, Venice, Genoa, Siena and Lucca - the book also considers princes and signori, and the principles underlying relations between states, particularly relations between major and minor powers. Many of the ideas articulated by those confronting practical political problems ranged beyond the questions dealt with in formal treatises of political thought and philosophy. Drawing on extensive archival research, Christine Shaw explores the relationship between 'reason and experience' in the conduct of political affairs in Renaissance Italy, and the gap between theory and practice.

Book Republicanism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin van Gelderen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780521672351
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Republicanism written by Martin van Gelderen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European republican traditions. Volume I looks at anti-monarchism in Europe, humanist theories of citizenship and the constitutional nature of the republic. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values --liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. It also addresses the role of women and relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society. -- Amazon.com.

Book Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies  2017

Download or read book Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017 written by Bill Rebiger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general.

Book Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies  2018

Download or read book Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018 written by Bill Rebiger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place at the Centre. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general. Staff, visiting fellows, and other international scholars are invited to contribute.

Book The Italian Reformation Outside Italy

Download or read book The Italian Reformation Outside Italy written by Giorgio Caravale and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the legacy of the so-called Italian Reformation? What contribution did Italian humanism make to European developments in irenicism and religious tolerance? In The Italian Reformation outside Italy, Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597). Educated in Renaissance Florence, Pucci found his vocation as a prophet in France during the Wars of Religion and embarked on a long period of peregrination, stopping off in Paris, London, Basle, Antwerp, Krakow and Prague before being imprisoned, tried and sentenced to death by the Roman Inquisition three years before Giordano Bruno. His doctrines were judged to be heretical by all religious confessions and his political proposal was a spectacular failure. Caravale presents a rich chapter of sixteenth-century European history whose main features are religious conflict, irenic tension, universalist aspirations and prophetic expectations. The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS (SEGRETARIATO EUROPEO PER LE PUBBLICAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE), Via Val d'Aposa 7, I-40123 Bologna, Italy — [email protected] — www.seps.it

Book Syntagmatia

Download or read book Syntagmatia written by Dirk Sacré and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume has been dedicated to two distinguished scholars of Neo-Latin Studies on the occasion of their retirement after a long and fruitful academic career, one at the Université catholique Louvain-la-Neuve, the other at the internationally renowned Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of Leuven University. Both the rich variety of subjects dealt with and the international diversity of the scholars authoring contributions reflect the wide interests of the celebrated Neo-Latinists, their international position, and the actual status of the discipline itself. Ranging from the Trecento to the 21st century, and embracing Latin writings from Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, the New World, Spain, Scotland, Denmark and China, this volume is as rich and multifaceted as it is voluminous, for it not only offers studies on well-known figures such as Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Thomas More, Eobanus Hessus, Lipsius, Tycho Brahe, Jean de la Fontaine and Jacob Cats, but it also includes new contributions on Renaissance commentaries and editions of classical authors such as Homer, Seneca and Horace; on Neo-Latin novels, epistolography and Renaissance rhetoric; on Latin translations from the vernacular and invectives against Napoleon; on the teaching of Latin in the 19th century; and on the didactics of Neo-Latin nowadays.

Book L Europa di Giovanni Sobieski

Download or read book L Europa di Giovanni Sobieski written by Gaetano Platania and published by Edizioni Sette Città. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume raccoglie vari interventi dell'incontro organizzato dal CESPoM nel giugno 2004 sul tema "L'Europa di Giovanni Sobieski: cultura, politica, mercatura e società". Questi pongono in luce la figura del sovrano polacco come uomo politico e fautore dell'alleanza con la Francia prima e con l'Impero dopo, il suo governo durato dal 1674 al 1696, gli effetti della sua politica, frutti che continuarono a prolungarsi dopo la sua morte, ma anche le difficoltà che l'Europa della seconda metà del Seicento, condizionata dal dualismo franco-asburgico, dovette affrontare.