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The paper examines Machiavelli's corpus to argue that he has an aesthetic conception of politics and power. Beginning with an analysis of his literary works, such as the Golden Ass, the author claims that the Florentine must be understood in light of his poetic and artistic sensibility. This allows us to see that he is more than merely a 'teacher of evil' or 'lover of freedom.' Machiavelli founds an aesthetic political theory by writing literature, employing rhetoric, and utilitizing categories borrowed from modern aesthetic theory to understand politics. This allows us a view of the Florentine that is far from either a scientific or ethical characterization of his worldview. |
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| Von Vacano, Diego. "Machiavelli???s Art of Power: A Study in the Aesthetics of Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p150509_index.html> |
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| Von Vacano, D. A. , 2006-08-31 "Machiavelli???s Art of Power: A Study in the Aesthetics of Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2011-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p150509_index.html |
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Abstract: The paper examines Machiavelli's corpus to argue that he has an aesthetic conception of politics and power. Beginning with an analysis of his literary works, such as the Golden Ass, the author claims that the Florentine must be understood in light of his poetic and artistic sensibility. This allows us to see that he is more than merely a 'teacher of evil' or 'lover of freedom.' Machiavelli founds an aesthetic political theory by writing literature, employing rhetoric, and utilitizing categories borrowed from modern aesthetic theory to understand politics. This allows us a view of the Florentine that is far from either a scientific or ethical characterization of his worldview. |
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| Machiavelli’s Art of Power: A Study in the Aesthetics of Politics Diego von Vacano Texas A&M University Assistant Professor Political Science Department APSA 2006 Machiavelli’s Three Masks Do we really know Machiavelli’s overall intentions? To be sure the Florentine Secretary is one of the most written-about political theorists of the Western canon. In large part the abundance of commentaries on his work is owed to the fact that what he wrote is often quite complex but sometimes is also |
| 2000. 19 Tusiani Joseph trans. and ed. Lust and Liberty: The Poems of Machiavelli. New York: Ivan Obolensky 1963. Viroli Maurizio. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the ‘Well Ordered Society.’ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988. ———. “Republic and Politics in Machiavelli and Rousseau.” History of Political Thought (Autumn 1989). ———. From Politics to Reason of State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992. ———.Machiavelli. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998. ———. Niccolò’s Smile. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 2000. 20 |
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