Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy

by Harvey Mansfield Jr.

Book Overview

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive study on Machiavelli's controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy. These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli's most important work, are thoroughly explained in a chapter-by-chapter commentary by Harvey C. Mansfield, one of the world's foremost interpreters of this remarkable philosopher.

Mansfield's aim is to discern Machiavelli's intention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226503704
• ISBN13: 9780226503707
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"