Egoism and the Freedom Movement
On the Anthropology of the Bourgeois Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11051663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Max Horkheimer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 1982 |
| Issue | 54 |
| Pages | 10-60 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/1282054010 |
| OpenAlex | W2070251096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The contradiction in the conception of human nature that has outstanding significance in the political literature of the bourgeois era came to light in two brilliant works at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Although Machiavelli's instructions for statesmen are not based on as pessimistic an anthropology as implied by the familiar statement in Chapter 18 of The Prince that all men "are bad and would not observe their faith," subsequent centuries understood him essentially in that manner. In fact, Machiavelli found so many followers in this direction that Treitschke could state that "all truly great political thinkers reveal a trace of cynical contempt for man, and even if it is not too strong it always has a strong basis
Art · Bourgeoisie · Contempt · Contradiction · Epistemology · Faith · Ignorance · Literature · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Law · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |