Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence Winter Hardback 9781108426701

Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence\nby Yves Winter\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Yves Winter\nTitle: Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Politics and government\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781108426701\nISBN-10: 1108426700\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nNiccol\u00F2 Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious, because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter reconstructs Machiavelli''s theory of violence and shows how it challenges moral and metaphysical ideas..