Machiavelli's God

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To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, thought it was crucial to republican social and political renewal--but that first it needed to be renewed itself. And without understanding this, Viroli conten…

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Title Statements

Full title :Machiavelli's God / Maurizio Viroli ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 310 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781400835034, 1400835038, 9780691154497, 069115449X
oclc:ocn650310403
LC Classification:JC143.M4
Dewey Decimal:172

MACHIAVELLI'S GOD; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE -- HIS GOD; CHAPTER TWO -- THE POWER OF WORDS; CHAPTER THREE -- THE REPUBLIC AND ITS RELIGION; CHAPTER FOUR -- MACHIAVELLI AND THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL REFORMATION OF ITALY; INDEX.

Subjects

Italy Machiavelli, Niccolò Morale politique -- Italie PHILOSOPHY -- Political Political ethics Political ethics -- Italy Political Science -- General Religion and politics Religion et politique