Political Thought From Machiavelli to Stalin
Title | Political Thought From Machiavelli to Stalin PDF eBook |
Author | E. A. Rees |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2004-03-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230505007 |
This is the first book in English to explore the relationship between Stalin's ideas and methods, and the practices advocated by Machiavelli and those associated with 'Machiavellian' politics. It advances the concept of 'revolutionary Machiavellism' as a way of understanding a particular strand of revolutionary thought from the Jacobins through to Leninism and Stalinism. By providing a wide-ranging survey of European political thought in the Nineteenth - and early Twentieth-century, E. A. Rees locates the Bolshevik tradition within the wider European tradition.
The Little Book of Politics
Title | The Little Book of Politics PDF eBook |
Author | DK |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0744044316 |
This book is the perfect pocket-sized introduction to politics and political thought throughout history. From the origins of democracy to Machiavelli's cunning statecraft, and from Rousseau's "social contract" to the American Declaration of Independence, Marxist communism, the dawn of populism, and identity politics, The Little Book of Politics examines the philosophies behind the different political beliefs and methods of government used around the world over the course of human history. Packed with infographics and flowcharts that explain complex concepts in a simple but exciting way, The Little Book of Politics offers you a combination of clear text and hard-working infographics in a portable format that is perfect for reading on the go.
Stalin's Curse
Title | Stalin's Curse PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Gellately |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307962350 |
A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Joseph Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader, whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, and not communist ideology. Now, using recently uncovered documents, Robert Gellately conclusively shows that, in fact, the dictator was biding his time, determined to establish Communist regimes across Europe and beyond. His actions during those years—and the poorly calculated responses to them from the West—set in motion what would eventually become the Cold War. Exciting, deeply engaging, and shrewdly perceptive, Stalin’s Curse is an unprecedented revelation of the sinister machinations of Stalin’s Kremlin.
Machiavelliana
Title | Machiavelliana PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Jackson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004365516 |
In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his intellectual origins. It assesses the appropriation of Machiavelli in didactic works in management, social psychology, and primatology, scholarly texts in leaderships studies, as well as novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, Mach IV scales, children’s books, and more. The book audits, surveys, examines, and evaluates this Machiavelliana against wider claims about Machiavelli. It explains the origins of Machiavelli’s reputation and the spread of his fame as the foundation for the many uses and misuses of his name. They conclude by redressing the most persistent distortions of Machiavelli.
Machiavelli and Epicureanism
Title | Machiavelli and Epicureanism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Roecklein |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2012-10-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0739177117 |
This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist philosophy are investigated during the first three chapters. Plato’s critique of the atomist philosophy, from his dialogue the Parmenides, is a part of that investigation. In fact, Plato provides a refutation of the atomist philosophy in the Parmenides. A significant amount of scholarship has been accomplished that demonstrates the currents of Lucretian atomism in Machiavelli’s Florence. Evidence is supplied as to Machiavelli’s exposure to the Lucretian text, and the book then proceeds to investigate the transformational arguments of the Discourses On Livy itself. Machiavelli’s Discourses are saturated with terminology that is borrowed from physics: ‘materia’ (Matter), ‘corpo’ (body), ‘forma’ (form), ‘accidente’ (accident). English translators have usually employed some theory as to which tradition of physics Machiavelli is relying upon, in order to conduct their translations. By borrowing the terminology of Lucretian physics, Machiavelli becomes able to conceive of the people in a political society as something less than human: as ‘matter’ or materia without form. In my analysis of Machiavelli’s deployment of the concepts from Lucretian physics, it is attempted to unveil the brutality that is inherent in Machiavelli’s new definitions of the elements of politics, and the general hostility of his political science to the Aristotelian concept of the human being as political animal. The classical physics of Aristotle, which Machiavelli has rejected for a model, indicates the forward looking momentum of natural beings. For Aristotle, nature intends human political society as the arena for human fulfillment. In Aristotelian physics, nature aims at an end in generation, i.e. at a culmination of the natural being in its proper condition of excellence. For human beings, this is justice, the quality of relationships that makes happiness possible. In Machiavelli, a new politicized physics is revealed. In Machiavelli’s model, the human beings of formed matter are repeatedly sent, through new institutions and methods of government, ‘back to their beginnings’, i.e. to a condition of isolation, destitution, injury, and pain. The last chapter of the book concludes with an examination of the particular institutions and methods that Machiavelli holds out to us for employment, if his new vision of a republic is to be realized.
Comprehensive History of Political Thought
Title | Comprehensive History of Political Thought PDF eBook |
Author | N. Jayapalan |
Publisher | Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788126900732 |
The Study Covers Different Phases Of The History Of Political Thought In A Detailed Manner. It Examines Skillfully The Views And Achievements Of Various Political Thinkers From Plato To Russell Of 20Th Century. The First Chapter Deals With Ideas And Accomplishments Of Plato. In The Second Chapter The Political Thoughts Of Aristotle Have Been Given In An Exhaustive And Elaborate Way.The Following Chapters Throw Light In Detail On The Thinking Of Many Political Thinkers Like Polybius, Cicero, St. Acquinas, Dante, Marsiglio, Ockham, Machiavelli, Bodin, Grotius Hoppes, Spinoza, Locke, Vico, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Burke, Paine, Bentham, Fichte, Hegel, Mill, Austin, J.S. Mill, Lenin, Stalin, Engels, Spencer, Green, Bradley, Bosanquet, Wallas, Mcdougall, Bagehot, H.J. Laski And Other Philosophers. The Book Gives Special Importance To The Political Thoughts Of Karl Marx, Gandhiji And Mao. It Is Designed To Meet The Requirements Of The Students. The Common Readers Will Also Find The Book Quite Interesting And Comprehendable.
The Prince
Title | The Prince PDF eBook |
Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1480427985 |
The world’s most influential—and controversial—treatise on politics Composed in exile and published posthumously, The Prince is Niccolò Machiavelli’s legacy and the foundation of modern political theory. Drawing on his firsthand experiences as a diplomat and military commander in the Florentine Republic, Machiavelli disregards the rhetorical flourishes and sentimentality typically found in sixteenth-century mirrors for princes—guides instructing noblemen in the fine art of ruling—and gets straight to practical matters: how to eliminate rivals, when to use force, whether it is better to be loved or feared. For its cold-blooded candor and unrepentant assertion that immorality can be a political virtue, The Prince was censured and Machiavelli’s name became synonymous with evil. Yet five centuries’ worth of political thinkers and leaders, from Thomas Cromwell to Francis Bacon to Napoleon Bonaparte to John Adams to Joseph Stalin, have turned to this slim volume for guidance and inspiration, because its advice on the acquisition and preservation of power contains the wisdom of experience—and, most importantly of all, because it works. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.