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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Niccolò Machiavelli"”.
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Early modern masters of suspicion
This thesis interprets Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John Milton, casting them as Masters of Suspicion. The category of ‘Master of Suspicion’ was introduced by Ricœur (1970) to describe how Marx, Nietzsche and Freud approached their respective economic, …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
… the concept of the free state as formulated by Niccolò Machiavelli – sees in national sovereignty the path to securing individual freedoms. Also discussed is why developmentalism, through history, has aimed at industrialisation of countries in the periphery. This paper suggests that the answer …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
… with the republican tradition: Thomas More and Niccolò Machiavelli. The final two chapters examine monarchical versions of the mundane perspective in the novels of François Rabelais and the essays of Michel de Montaigne. The mundane perspective calls us and our politics back down to earth. It is …