Lionizing Machiavelli

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3524901
AutoresTimothy J Lukes (Santa Clara University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen95
Número3
Páginas561-575
Fecha de publicación2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000305540100301x
OpenAlexW4246195141
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

Machiavelli scholarship is prolific but claustrophobic. Even though chapter 18 of The Prince advises the aspiring leader to emulate both lion and fox, commentators ignore or devalue the lion and focus on the fox. Machiavelli is thereby depicted as a champion of cleverness and deception, and not much else. This article takes up the lion. It argues that Machiavelli's lion is not a simple and violent beast, but is rather a complex tutor that complements clinical and lonely foxiness with crucial injections of virility and community

Aesthetics · Champion · Deception · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Masculinity · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Simple (philosophy · Sociology · Virility · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies