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Machiavelli Goes to the Movies

- Understanding The Prince through Television and Film
Af: Eric T. Kasper, Troy Kozma Engelsk Paperback

Machiavelli Goes to the Movies

- Understanding The Prince through Television and Film
Af: Eric T. Kasper, Troy Kozma Engelsk Paperback
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Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince remains an influential book more than five centuries after he wrote his timeless classic. However, the political philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in his tome is often misunderstood. Although he thought humans to be rational, self-interested creatures, and even though he proposed an approach to politics in which the ends justify the means, Machiavelli was not, as some have argued, simply “a teacher of evil.” The Prince’s many ancient and medieval examples, while relevant to sixteenth century readers, are lost on most of today’s students of Machiavelli. Examples from modern films and television programs, which are more familiar and understandable to contemporary readers, provide a better way to accurately teach Machiavelli’s lessons. Indeed, modern media, such as Breaking Bad, The Godfather, The Walking Dead, Charlie Wilson’s War, House of Cards, Argo, and The Departed, are replete with illustrations that teach Machiavelli’s critical principles, including the need to caress or annihilate, learning “how not to be good,” why it is better to be feared than loved, and how to act as both the lion and the fox. Modern media are used in this book to exemplify the tactics Machiavelli advocated and to comprehensively demonstrate that Machiavelli intended for government actors and those exercising power in other contexts to fight for a greater good and strive to achieve glory.
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Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince remains an influential book more than five centuries after he wrote his timeless classic. However, the political philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in his tome is often misunderstood. Although he thought humans to be rational, self-interested creatures, and even though he proposed an approach to politics in which the ends justify the means, Machiavelli was not, as some have argued, simply “a teacher of evil.” The Prince’s many ancient and medieval examples, while relevant to sixteenth century readers, are lost on most of today’s students of Machiavelli. Examples from modern films and television programs, which are more familiar and understandable to contemporary readers, provide a better way to accurately teach Machiavelli’s lessons. Indeed, modern media, such as Breaking Bad, The Godfather, The Walking Dead, Charlie Wilson’s War, House of Cards, Argo, and The Departed, are replete with illustrations that teach Machiavelli’s critical principles, including the need to caress or annihilate, learning “how not to be good,” why it is better to be feared than loved, and how to act as both the lion and the fox. Modern media are used in this book to exemplify the tactics Machiavelli advocated and to comprehensively demonstrate that Machiavelli intended for government actors and those exercising power in other contexts to fight for a greater good and strive to achieve glory.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9780739195963
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0739195964
Kategori: Populærkultur
Udg. Dato: 29 aug 2016
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 275mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 29 aug 2016
Forfatter(e): Eric T. Kasper, Troy Kozma
Forfatter(e) Eric T. Kasper, Troy Kozma

Kategori Populærkultur

ISBN-13 9780739195963

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 216

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 275mm

Højde 154mm

Udg. Dato 29 aug 2016

Oplagsdato 29 aug 2016

Forlag Lexington Books