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The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy

The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy

Maurizio Viroli

This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants.
How To Read Machiavelli

How To Read Machiavelli

Maurizio Viroli

Against the trite commonplace that Machiavelli was a teacher of evil who justified political immorality, Maurizio Viroli shows that Machiavaelli was concerned instead with the best way to attain true glory through political action and that ...
For Love of Country: An Essay On Patriotism and Nationalism

For Love of Country: An Essay On Patriotism and Nationalism

Maurizio Viroli

How can we rescue patriotism from the tainted grasp of nationalism? Reconstructing the historical the meaning of the terms, Maurizio Viroli shows how the two concepts have been used within specific cultural and ideological contexts.
Machiavelli's God

Machiavelli's God

Maurizio Viroli

The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS - Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.
From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and ...

From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and ...

Maurizio Viroli

In order to obtain favors, they have been willing to serve a powerful citizen. The responsibility for the rise of Medici domination lies, then, with the Florentines themselves. Niccolo Guicciardini's analysis coincides with that of the theorists of the ...
Machiavelli

Machiavelli

Maurizio Viroli

This launch volume in the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents a critical examination of Machiavelli's thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with a re-assessment of his ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'

Maurizio Viroli

This book studies a central but hitherto neglected aspect of Rousseau's political thought: the concept of social order and its implications for the ideal society which he envisages.
Faded Letters:

Faded Letters:

Maurizio Ascari

Maurizio Ascari. Maurizio Ascari Faded Letters MAURIZIO ASCARI Patrician Press ○ Manningtree Faded Letters. Front Cover.
Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines

Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines

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European Crossroads and Faultlines Maurizio Ascari, Adriana Corrado ... the journey which has led to this volume. Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado This page intentionally left blank Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado Acknowledgements.
Il ritorno delle tribù

Il ritorno delle tribù

Maurizio Molinari

Maurizio Molinari, dopo averci aiutato a comprendere la guerra all'Occidente mossa dalla Jihad, delinea in questo libro un nuovo conflitto che ruota attorno a tribù differenti.
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human ...

Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human ...

Ari Helo

I see Jefferson's ref- erences to the Teutonic, barbarian origins of Anglo-Saxons less important than does Maurizio Valsania, for even this mode of barbarism was barbarian only in comparison to the Greco-Roman civilization. Cf. Maurizio ...
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, ...

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, ...

Maurizio Ascari

Maurizio Ascari 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0- 230-52500-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this ...
Il Califfato del terrore: Perché lo Stato Islamico minaccia ...

Il Califfato del terrore: Perché lo Stato Islamico minaccia ...

Maurizio Molinari

Ma da dove vengono i jihadisti che vogliono purificare il mondo dagli infedeli? Maurizio Molinari rivela in questo libro la genesi di un’ideologia religiosa totalitaria che travolge l’Islam e genera violenze orrende.
Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

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(Photo: Maurizio Albahari) Figure 10.3. Political graffiti in Lecce. 'Everybody free! Migrants out of concentration camps!' Note the Anarchist symbol. (Photo: Maurizio Albahari) Figure 11.1. Remains of inflatable dinghies on a remote beach on ...
Jefferson's Body: A Corporeal Biography

Jefferson's Body: A Corporeal Biography

Maurizio Valsania

Maurizio Valsania considers all aspects of Jefferson’s complex conception of "the body," from eighteenth-century clothing and fashion to manners, adornment, posture, gesture, and visual and material culture.
Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's ...

Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's ...

Maurizio Albahari

In Crimes of Peace, Maurizio Albahari investigates why the Mediterranean Sea is the world's deadliest border, and what alternatives could improve this state of affairs.
Autophagy: Chapter 8. Non-Lipidated LC3 is Essential for ...

Autophagy: Chapter 8. Non-Lipidated LC3 is Essential for ...

Julia Noack

Chapter 8. Non-Lipidated LC3 is Essential for Mouse Hepatitis Virus Infection Julia Noack, Riccardo Bernasconi, Maurizio Molinari. C H A P T E R 8 ... Mouse. Hepatitis. Virus. Infection. Julia Noack, Riccardo Bernasconi and Maurizio Molinari ...
The Italians of New York

The Italians of New York

Maurizio Molinari

Here, you will find the pride of flying the Italian colors at the Fifth Avenue Columbus Day Parade, the American patriotism of those who perished at Ground Zero, the courage of firefighters and marines on the frontline of the war against ...
Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious ...

Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious ...

Jonathan J. Den Hartog

... of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation Ruma Chopra Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution Maurizio Valsania The Limitsof Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment PeterS.
Ridotto

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The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic ...

The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic ...

Maurizio Valsania

The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jefferson’s allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality.
Literature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of ...

Literature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of ...

Maurizio Ascari

According to Michael Seats, the idea ofa threshold is central to the volume right from the title, which evokes the shore as an uncertain border between land and sea, inaugurating a series of shifting oppositions such as “life/death, good/evil, ...

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