Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One: Between Antiquity and Modernity
5. 1. Machiavelli on Necessity 39
6. 2. Machiavelli on Good and Evil: The Problem of Dirty Hands Revisited 58
7. 3. Machiavelli and the Critics of Rome: Rereading Discourses I.4 87
8. 4. Machiavelli, “Ancient Theology,” and the Problem of Civil Religion 113
9. Part Two: The Prince and the Politics of Necessity
10. 5. Machiavelli and the Misunderstanding of Princely Virtù 139
11. 6. The Necessity to Be Not- Good: Machiavelli’s Two Realisms 164
12. 7. Loyalty in Adversity 186
13. 8. Machiavelli and the Modern Tyrant 207
14. Part Three: Class Struggle, Financial Power, and Extraordinary Authority in the Republic
15. 9. Machiavelli and the Gracchi: Republican Liberty and Class Conflict 235
16. 10 Machiavelli, the Republic, and the Financial Crisis 257
17. 11. Extraordinary Accidents in the Life of Republics: Machiavelli and Dictatorial Authority 280
18. Part Four: Machiavellian Politics beyond Machiavelli
19. 12. The Reception of Machiavelli in Contemporary Republicanism: Some Ambiguities and Paradoxes 309
20. 13. On the Myth of a Conservative Turn in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories 330
21. 14. Political Imagination, Conflict, and Democracy: Machiavelli’s Republican Realism 352
22. 15. “Armi proprie e improprie” in the Work of Some Representative Italian Readers of the Twentieth Century 373
23. 16. What Does a “Conjuncture- Embedded” Reflection Mean? The Legacy of Althusser’s Machiavelli to Contemporary Political Theory 399
24. Contributors 415
25. Index 417