Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

The Prince embodies a series of vital issues, including power and morality, history and human nature, language and meaning, gender and government. It is these issues which the essays in this volume debate and explore from a variety of perspectives, from the original responses through to feminist and deconstructive approaches.

1. Introduction - Martin Coyle
2. The Prince and its early Italian readers - Brian Richardson
3. Machiavelli's via moderna: medieval and Renaissance attitudes to history - Janet Coleman
4. Dialogue in The Prince - John Parkin
5. Language and The Prince - John M. Najemy
6. The end justifies the means: end-orientation and the discourses of power - Maggie Günsberg
7. The Prince and textual politics - Andrew Mousley
8. Machiavelli's political philosophy in The Prince - Maureen Ramsay
Appendix - Machiavelli's letter to Francesco Vettori, 10 December 1513 - Brian Richardson translator
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