The People's Princes : Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty

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The People's Princes : Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty

McCormick, John P.

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University of Chicago Press（2025/08発売）
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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780226842356
DDC分類 320.1

Full Description

A new window into Machiavelli's idea of virtuous leadership and the appropriate relationship among leaders, common citizens, and elites.

For more than a decade, John P. McCormick has been at the forefront of a new wave of scholarship that reveals the anti-elitist and democratic commitments at the center of Niccolo Machiavelli's political thought. In The People's Princes, McCormick turns his attention to Machiavelli's conception of virtuous leadership and Machiavelli's views on the appropriate relationships among individual leaders, common citizens, and elites.

While most people think of Machiavelli as a cynical advisor of tyrants—a man who counseled leaders to aggrandize themselves, by any means necessary, at the expense of their subjects and citizens—The People's Princes fundamentally challenges this understanding. Drawing from Machiavelli's major political works a normative standard for leadership that emphasizes the mutually reinforcing relationship of civic leadership and popular government, McCormick delineates Machiavelli's method of "political exemplarity" by analyzing in detail the Florentine's case studies of leaders and their interactions with populaces throughout ancient and modern history.

McCormick argues that Machiavelli suggests that civic leaders should enhance their reputations by providing for their own eventual obsolescence; specifically, they should establish institutional means through which common citizens rule themselves more directly and substantively. The People's Princes invites readers to consider Machiavelli anew, and also reflect on insights that remain relevant in the twenty-first century amidst growing concerns that political leaders are not accountable or responsive to popular majorities.

Prologue
Preface. Machiavelli's Reconciling of Leadership and Democracy

Part 1. Salutary Tyranny in The Prince and Discourses
1. Agathocles as Princely Exemplum (Agathocles, Hiero, Cesare Borgia, Liverotto da Fermo, Nabis the Spartan)
2. Greek Tyrants and Roman Reformers (Cleomenes, Clearchus, the Gracchi, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar)

Part 2. Civic Leadership in The Prince and Discourses
3. Severe and Prudent Civic Magistrates: The Consul, the Dictator, and the Gonfalonier "for Life" (Lucius Brutus, Furius Camillus, and Piero Soderini)
4. Rome's Most Prudent Captain and Florence's Unarmed Prophets: Envy, Exile, and Willingly Leaving Office (Camillus, Moses, Soderini, and Savonarola)
5. Civic Corruption, Capital Trials, and the Assembled People (Marcus Menenius and Piero Soderini)
6. Opening the People's Eyes (at Least Partially): Civic versus Princely Leadership (Pacuvius Calanus and Cesare Borgia)

Part 3. Imprudent Leadership in the Florentine Histories
7. Faulty Foundings and Failed Reformers: The Civic Ills of Goodness, Patriotism, and Concord (Giano della Bella, Corso Donati, and Michele di Lando)
8. Failed Tyrants: Bad Men Who Know Not How to Appear Good (Appius Claudius, Walter Brienne, and Septimius Severus)

Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index