Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Confl

Description: Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà Machiavelli in Tumult is the first book-length study entirely devoted to reconstructing the Discourses idea that internal conflicts must be praised as a source of strength, its ancient roots, its influence up until and beyond the American and French Revolutions, and its relevance for contemporary political theory. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Among the theses that for centuries have ensured Niccolò Machiavelli an ambiguous fame, a special place goes to his extremely positive opinion of social conflicts, and, more in particular, to the claim that in ancient Rome the disunion between the plebs and the Roman senate made that republic free and powerful (Discourses on Livy I.4). Contrary to a long tradition that had always highly valued civic concord, Machiavelli thought that - at least under certain conditions - internecine discord could be a source of strength and not of weakness, and built upon this daring proposition an original vision of political order. Machiavelli in Tumult (originally published in Italian in 2011) is the first book-length study entirely devoted to analyzing this idea, its ancient roots (never before identified), its enduring (but often invisible) influence up until the American and the French Revolution (and beyond), and its relevance for contemporary political theory. Author Biography Gabriele Pedullà is professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Rome 3 and has been visiting professor at Stanford, University of California, Los Angeles, and the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance, Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, and Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University. In English he has published In Broad Daylight. Movies and Spectators after the Cinema (2012) and many essays on Renaissance political thought. With Sergio Luzzatto, he edited a three volume Atlante della letteratura italiana (2010–12). His new edition and commentary on Machiavellis Prince (2013) is forthcoming in English and is under translation in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is also the author of two prizewinning fiction books: the collection of short stories Lo spagnolo senza sforzo (2009: partially translated into English), and the novel Lame (2017, forthcoming in English as Blades). Table of Contents Introduction; 1. Concordia parvae res crescunt: the humanistic backdrop; 2. A necessary inconvenience: the demystification of political concord; 3. Fear and virtue: the rebuttal to humanistic pedagogy; 4. The guard of liberty: the rejection of Aristotelian balance; 5. Giving the foreigners citizenship: an expansionist republicanism; 6. Dionysius reappearance: the classical roots of modern conflictualism; 7. Remembering the conflict: Machiavellis legacy. Review Review of Italian edition: Gabriele Pedullà has written a masterful book. … A short review cannot begin to do justice to the authors astonishing command of two millennia of primary sources and a vast array of modern scholarship or to the new light these essays shed on both Machiavelli and the long history of the questions he addressed. In deepening the understanding of Machiavellis polemical engagement with assumptions inherited from antiquity and fifteenth-century humanists, this book merits comparison with the magisterial studies of Gennaro Sasso; and in analyzing the complex responses, positive and negative, to Machiavellis ideas over the next several centuries, it similarly deserves comparison with the overarching narratives of the history of political thought of Quentin Skinner and JGA Pocock. … Pedullàs stimulating book opens new vistas and enriches familiar questions. In a time of immense vitality in Machiavelli studies, it should top the reading lists of all scholars in the field. John M. Najemy, Renaissance QuarterlyA brilliant, original work by one of the most learned and creative scholars in the humanities today. Ronald G. Witt, Duke University, North CarolinaGabriele Pedullàs Machiavelli in Tumult stands as a monumental contribution to both Machiavelli studies and the history of political thought. Through exhaustive historical research and with remarkable textual facility, Pedullà demonstrates just how radically Machiavellis Discourses repudiated two thousand years of Greek, Roman and humanistic reflections on the value of civic concord. Pedullà emphasizes Machiavellis resolute commitment to the political efficacy of social discord and class conflict, especially the salutary effects of tumults for civic liberty. A model of scholarly erudition and analytic perspicacity, Machiavelli in tumult is mandatory reading for anyone, within the academy or among the general public, interested in political theory or intellectual history. John P. McCormick, University of ChicagoPedullàs book shows that the theory of conflict not only lies at the very heart of Machiavellis work, but also marked the decisive turning point at which Western political thought changed its course by adopting a new conceptual language. The authors outstanding expertise in both early-modern and contemporary culture grants his interpretation the critical insight and analytic richness of a true classic. Roberto Exposito, Scuola Normale Superiore of PisaDeep, sharp and wide-ranging, Machiavelli in Tumult offers a rich and insightful exploration of Machiavellis treatment of the causes, dynamics, consequences, and uses of mass political conflict. A must-read for those interested in the intellectual history of conflict, as well as those trying to make sense of where conflict fits in contemporary society. Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale University, ConnecticutNobody has ever studied this topic like Pedullàs book does. … The methodological shift produces an important change in Machiavelli studies, as the chapter about Dionysius of Halicarnassus proves: a true and highly valuable discovery. … Pedullà puts his fertile erudition at the service of an original interpretation, and always takes very clear positions, undaunted by the discussion (and sometimes polemic) with five centuries of Machiavelli scholarship. … Very rarely has someone investigated the humanistic tradition so deeply. … Pedullà proposes a new methodology, whose productiveness is widely demonstrated by his own book. He opens a new path, and we all have to be grateful to him also for this. Jean-Louis Fournel, Rassegna della Letteratura ItalianaIn recent scholarship about Machiavelli few monographs make denser investigations for ideas and historical contexts as well as for the diffusion of specific questions or topoi. … Pedullàs work and thesis are both convincing. Against the Cambridge school, which claims that Machiavelli is merely a link between Leonardo Bruni and the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Anglo-American authors, the book offers a better understanding of the peculiarity of Machiavellis new beginning. Especially important is the discovery of Dionysius of Halicarnassus relevance: after Pedullàs book, future commentaries of the Discourses will have to take Dionysius as a source for Machiavellis conception of the mixed constitution along with Polybius. … This is a significant progress in the crowded field of Machiavelli studies. … A really valuable book. Cornel Zwierlein, Historische ZeitschriftDuring the last fifty years, the issue of conflict has emerged as one of the most important and problematic in Machiavelli studies. In his powerful book Machiavelli in Tumult, Gabriele Pedullà explores this topic at a level never reached before. … One of Pedullàs greatest contributions comes from the way he answers the question of Machiavellis importance for us, even if Pedullà made erudition one of his most powerful and effective heuristic weapons: only if we recognize that Machiavelli is different from us can his political project be understood in all its disruptive novelty and teach twenty-first century readers so much. To obtain this result, Pedullà combines the tools of comparative literature, intellectual history and political theory, while also offering an impressive investigation of Machiavellis sources that relies on a vast reading of Greek, Latin, and Neo-Latin authors. … For all these reasons Machiavelli in Tumult is an instrument without compare for further research. … Pedullàs book closes a season, and offers new historical tools for addressing crucial political (and constitutional) problems. Jérémie Barthas, Rivista Storica ItalianaA welcome book and a courageous intellectual bet. … Through the crucial problem of the conflict, Gabriele Pedullàs essay offers a new reconstruction of Machiavellis thought as a whole. … This is a rich, broad, demanding book, built on a really impressive number of sources, both ancient and modern, and conceived as a step by step demonstration. … Pedullàs Machiavelli is the debunker of the myth of Medieval and Humanistic political thought as an abstract Utopia. A radical Machiavelli, who is very far from the idealization of the recent Anglo-American interpreters (or at least of Pocock, Skinner, and their disciples). A Machiavelli who, finally, lives fruitfully in lateral and less-known traditions of Western political thought (the best ones). … After Pedullàs research there is no room anymore for the republican paradigm. Guido Cappelli, Cuadernos de Filologìa ItalianaA remarkable book, characterized by an intense, often polemical, discussion of an impressively rich bibliography and by the passion for discovery and original hypothesis. Lina Bolzoni, Il Sole 24 OreA real turning-point in the interpretation of Machiavelli. Nuria Sánchez, Res Publica - Revista de Historia de las Ideas PolíticasGabriele Pedullàs book shows the mastery of a perfect historian. Anna Maria Cantore, Annali di ItalianisticaPedullà brings a remarkable facility with Machiavellis historical context, as well as the classical tradition, to bear on his thesis … One anticipates future responses in the years to come, as scholars absorb and respond to this deeply learned work. Such is the praise it merits. David Polansky, The Review of Politics Promotional Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful. Review Quote Review of Italian edition: Gabriele Pedull Promotional "Headline" Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful. Description for Bookstore Machiavelli in Tumult is the first book-length study entirely devoted to reconstructing the Discourses idea that internal conflicts must be praised as a source of strength, its ancient roots, its influence up until and beyond the American and French Revolutions, and its relevance for contemporary political theory. Description for Library Machiavelli in Tumult is the first book-length study entirely devoted to reconstructing the Discourses idea that internal conflicts must be praised as a source of strength, its ancient roots, its influence up until and beyond the American and French Revolutions, and its relevance for contemporary political theory. Details ISBN1107177278 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 1107177278 ISBN-13 9781107177277 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism Media Book DEWEY 320.1 Publication Date 2018-08-30 Pages 298 Short Title Machiavelli in Tumult Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-30 AU Release Date 2018-08-30 NZ Release Date 2018-08-30 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white Author Gabriele Pedullà Alternative 9781316822562 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:119051675;

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