Machiavelli's Politics

"""There is no book on Machiavelli quite like this one, with exposition and analysis of every major work. Zuckert's writing is admirably clear, the depth of her knowledge about the history and background of the texts amply evident. In establishing the coherence of Machiavelli's work, her interpretations of particular passages are surprising and enlightening.""--Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University ""Machiavelli's Politics offers an important contribution to political studies on Machiavelli. Indeed, Zuckert's book should not go unnoticed by those interested in improving their own interpretation of Machiavelli or those seeking to write on his political work. In the coming years we will surely hear more about this book, both from those intent on testing Zuckert's innovative interpretive proposal and those who would severely criticize it. Now, therefore, all that remains is to wait for the experts to speak.""-- ""Universa. Recensioni di filosofia (Translated from Italian)"" ""Debates over the meaning and purpose of the works of Machiavelli have ebbed and flowed since his death in 1527. Machiavelli's Politics may be one of the most ambitious attempts to date to settle the case. . . . [It] is both synoptic and diligent, comprehensive and innovative.""-- ""Washington Examiner, Editors' Picks, Books of the Decade"" ""If a reader wants a synoptic and novel take on Machiavelli, Machiavelli's Politics is the place to go. Erudite, clearly written, original, and ambitious, the book is a remarkable work. Zuckert's approach, as she states, is a synthesis of historical, rhetorical, and theoretical approaches""-- ""Perspectives on Politics"" ""With the publication of Machiavelli's Politics, political scientist Catherine H. Zuckert offers a magnificent contribution not just to the field studies surrounding Machiavelli, especially the history of political thought, but also, more broadly, to the reader's understanding of modem political life... Free of partisanship or polemic, her book is the fruit of a disinterested scholarly quest for the real Machiavelli conducted through a synoptic, historically contextualized, and literarily sensitive exegesis of his major writings."" -- ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" ""Machiavelli's Politics is an exceedingly ambitious book--comparable in many ways with Zuckert's magnum opus on Plato. In the case of Machiavelli, the devil is in the details, and this is one of the few scholarly works to carefully and thoroughly tackle Machiavelli's entire corpus. But the book is much more than an indispensable scholarly resource. It is a work of controversy that scholars and others interested in Machiavelli will find challenging and exciting, regardless of whether one is persuaded by her claims."" --Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College"