Harvey C Mansfield

Gebundenes Buch

Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Beschreibung

"This is the first book on the "effectual truth," a new kind of truth invented by Machiavelli that led to the invention of scientific method in cause and effect, passed along to philosophic successors, such as Montesquieu 230 years later. High-level thinking in words you can understand"--

Autor

Harvey C. Mansfield has spent his life at Harvard, where he studies and teaches political philosophy. He is a translator of Machiavelli and Tocqueville, writing on Edmund Burke, the invention of indirect government, defensible and constitutional liberalism, the discovery of the theory of executive power, and the nature of manliness. He has received the National Humanities Medal (2004), delivered the annual Thomas Jefferson lecture (2007), and has been awarded the Bradley Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781009320122
• ISBN-10: 1009320122
• Artikelnr.: 68989100