Isbn: 9780299110802 - machiavelli and the history of prudence (rhetoric of the human sciences) (11 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Fine. 238 pp., hardcover, fine in a lightly worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A bright, tight copy. Clean, colorful DJ is lightly rubbed at edge; protected in mylar. Boards firmly bound; pages unmarked throughout.

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Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 236 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small tear to front cover. Internally very good. Record # 459292.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Bound in umber cloth with black lettering on the spine. Rhetoric of the human sciences. - In a radical departure from conventional readings of The Prince and Discourses on Livy, Eugene Garver examines the Machiavellian texts in order to illuminate more general problems of practical reason. He bases his detailed readings not only on an explication of the ethical and political problems of Machiavelli's readers, but on an analysis of the philosophical problems of practical reason and prudence drawn from Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, and on an exhibition of the resources for thinking about those problems taken from the history of rhetoric. Garver claims that prudence, practical wisdom, and practical reason in general have a history, and that Machiavelli represents an important turning point in that history. While no one would quarrel with the idea that the decisions and actions thought to be practically wise or prudent have changed through time, it is Garver's contention that the abilities required for the good operation of practical reason have themselves changed, that the story of those developments is worth tracing, and that the history of rhetoric is a valuable resource in reconstructing the history of prudence. Garver begins by examining the argumentative and stylistic surface of The Prince, its presentation of examples and maxims embedded in a series of elaborately formal frames. He goes on to make the achievement of the text problematic by rejecting any simple elision between the discursive virtuosity Machiavelli exhibits and the practical virtu he presumably teaches. Garver then turns to the politics of rhetorical invention, exploring ways in which the different parts of rhetoric generate different kinds of politics Machiavelli's politics of rhetorical invention versus a politics of another part of rhetoric, style. What were earlier seen as argumentative tactics here become the substance of politics as Machiavelli's enterprise is seen as a politics of invention opposed to traditional rulers who rule by style, by acting like princes. Here, the devices and techniques of rhetoric begin to thicken into something that, says Garver, could be called an art or discipline. Garver next returns to the relationships between rhetoric and action, as he treats the last three chapters of The Prince, paying particular attention to Machiavelli's allegory of treating fortune like a woman. xiv 238. Umber dustjacket with white text and a depiction of Machiavelli.CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Dustjacket has moderate rubbing and edge wear. Full refund if not satisfied.…

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, the pictorial dust wrapper is very well preserved, 238pp.

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Hardcover. Zustand: gut. 1987. Machiavelli and the History of Prudence In englischer Sprache. pages.