The Prince (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Prince For this treatise on statecraft the author drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 23 December 2008
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Political Science & Theory | Social & Political Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780140449150 ISBN 10: 0140449159
- Sales rank: 1,109
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"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideals, but with a regime that would last, "The Prince" has become the Bible of realpolitik, and still retains its power to alarm and to instruct.
