Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy

• Published in: Canadian Journal of History Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 591 - 593
• Main Author: Kingston, Rebecca E
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Saskatoon University of Toronto Press 22.12.2007
• Subjects: English; Fraud; History; Ideology; Language history; Political power; Politics; Traditions; United States > US

For Markus Fischer, who provides a prologue to the collection, as well as the authors of chapters on Machiavelli's influences on early modern political thought, Machiavelli is an original modern thinker whose work is best characterized as a repudiation of the classical ideal through a defense o...