Lionizing Machiavelli

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3524901
AutoresTimothy J Lukes (Santa Clara University, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume95
Fascículo3
Páginas561-575
Data de publicação2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000305540100301x
OpenAlexW4246195141
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

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