Tyranny : a new interpretation

Waller R. Newell

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern emphasis on impersonal institutions and cold-blooded political method. By diagnosing the varieties of tyranny from erotic voluptuaries like Nero, the steely determination of reforming conquerors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar and modernizing despots such as Napoleon and Ataturk to the collectivist revolutions of the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Nazis and Khmer Rouge, Newell shows how tyranny is every bit as dangerous to free democratic societies today as it was in the past.

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This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern emphasis on impersonal institutions and cold-blooded political method. By diagnosing the varieties of tyranny from erotic voluptuaries like Nero, the steely determination of reforming conquerors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar and modernizing despots such as Napoleon and Ataturk to the collectivist revolutions of the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Nazis and Khmer Rouge, Newell shows how tyranny is every bit as dangerous to free democratic societies today as it was in the past.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the conquest of eros
  • 1. The ontology of tyranny
  • 2. The tyrant and the statesman in Plato's political philosophy and Machiavelli's rejoinder
  • 3. Superlative virtue, monarchy, and political community in Aristotle's Politics
  • 4. Tyranny and the art of ruling in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus
  • 5. Machiavelli, Xenophon, and Xenophon's Cyrus
  • 6. Glory and reputation: Machiavelli's new prince
  • 7. The republic in motion: Machiavelli's vision of the new Rome
  • Conclusion: tyranny ancient and modern
  • Epilogue: the hermaneutical problem of tyranny
  • Bibliography.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the conquest of eros
  • 1. The ontology of tyranny
  • 2. The tyrant and the statesman in Plato's political philosophy and Machiavelli's rejoinder
  • 3. Superlative virtue, monarchy, and political community in Aristotle's Politics
  • 4. Tyranny and the art of ruling in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus
  • 5. Machiavelli, Xenophon, and Xenophon's Cyrus
  • 6. Glory and reputation: Machiavelli's new prince
  • 7. The republic in motion: Machiavelli's vision of the new Rome
  • Conclusion: tyranny ancient and modern
  • Epilogue: the hermaneutical problem of tyranny
  • Bibliography.

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この本の情報

書名 Tyranny : a new interpretation
著作者等 Newell, Waller Randy
Newell Waller R.
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2013
ページ数 x, 544 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9781107010321
9781107610736
NCID BB12659858
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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