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Pact with the Devil: the ethics, politics and economics of Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism

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posted on 2023-06-07, 22:43 authored by Ioannis D Evrigenis, Mark Somos
Machiavelli is often called 'the father of modernity' because of his intention to ground politics in an account of human nature free from utopian normativism. This realist design was ill-favoured during religious and idealistic periods of history. Yet recent scholarship identified several thinkers who emulated Machiavelli despite their public denunciation of his politics and morals. The Network's principal objective is to establish whether these thinkers' works and writing strategies constitute a hitherto unidentified, distinct and coherent discourse. If so, then its examination will shed new light on the most fundamental shift in Western politics, from Christian idealism to modern realism, and on the perennial problem of political ethics.

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Journal

History of European Ideas

ISSN

0191-6599

Publisher

Elsevier

Issue

2

Volume

37

Pages

157.0

Place of publication

United States

Series

History of European Ideas

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This is an edited special issue edited by Ioannis D Evrigenis, Mark Somos

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Ioannis D Evrigenis, Mark Somos

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2012-02-06

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