Tyranny A New Interpretation 1st Edition by Waller R Newell ISBN 1107010322 9781107010321

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ISBN 10: 1107010322

ISBN 13: 9781107010321 

Author: Waller R. Newell 

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers’ stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern emphasis on impersonal institutions and cold-blooded political method. The turning point is Machiavelli’s call for the conquest of nature. Newell traces the lines of influence from Machiavelli’s new science of politics to the rise of Atlanticist republicanism in England and America, as well as the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century and their effects on the present. By diagnosing the varieties of tyranny from erotic voluptuaries like Nero, the steely determination of reforming conquerors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar and modernizing despots such as Napoleon and Ataturk to the collectivist revolutions of the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Nazis, and Khmer Rouge, Newell shows how tyranny is every bit as dangerous to free democratic societies today as it was in the past.

• Provides an original interpretation of the differences between ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought
• Discusses studies of Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Bacon and Hobbes
• Describes the failure of modern social science to identify tyranny as an enduring danger to free societies

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: the conquest of eros
1. The ontology of tyranny
2. The tyrant and the statesman in Plato’s political philosophy and Machiavelli’s rejoinder
3. Superlative virtue, monarchy, and political community in Aristotle’s Politics
4. Tyranny and the art of ruling in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus
5. Machiavelli, Xenophon, and Xenophon’s Cyrus
6. Glory and reputation: Machiavelli’s new prince
7. The republic in motion: Machiavelli’s vision of the new Rome
Conclusion: tyranny ancient and modern
Epilogue: the hermeneutical problem of tyranny
Bibliography.

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