Eric T. Kasper Troy Kozma Machiavelli Goes to the Movies (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Machiavelli Goes to the MoviesCondition: NewSubtitle: Understanding The Prince through Television and FilmISBN-10: 0739195948EAN: 9780739195949ISBN: 9780739195949Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/24/2015Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 449gAuthor: Eric T. Kasper, Troy KozmaGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Law & Politics, Philosophy & Spirituality, History, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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