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| Feminist
Interpretations of Niccolo Machiavelli
Edited by Maria J. Falco
440 pgs | 6 x 9
Feminist
Philosophy, Political Theory
Hardback: $95.00 SH
ISBN-10:
0-271-02388-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02388-5
Paperback: $39.50 SH
ISBN-10:
0-271-02389-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02389-2
Re-Reading
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| Diplomat,
bureaucrat, and practical politician, Niccolò Machiavelli served
as Second Secretary to the Republic of Florence in the early sixteenth
century and became the first major political thinker in the western
tradition to make a complete break with the Aristotelian model of
politics as a branch of ethics. While The Prince is his most
famous work, grounding his reputation as the progenitor of “Realpolitik,”
his many other writings have contributed to a more complex and broader
image of the man and his political thought. Thus in recent years Machiavelli
has come to be seen as a republican and a proto-liberal by some mainstream
political theorists, and as an obfuscator of traditional values and
ideologies, including gender roles, by feminists and non-feminists
alike.
The
contributors to this volume, grappling with questions about the
position of women in political society, investigate whether or not
Machiavelli was truly a misogynist and a proto-fascist or instead
a proto-feminist and a democratic republican. Among the themes they
explore are the implications of such dichotomies as Fortuna
and virtù, the public and the private, nature and
reason, ends and means, functionality and the common good, as well
as the importance of the military to the socialization of citizens,
particularly women, to civic life, and the social construction of
gender. Some of the contributors even consider the possibility that
Machiavelli’s approach to ethics provides a special insight
that feminists, and women generally, might explore to their benefit.
Besides
the editor, the contributors are Wendy Brown, Jane Jaquette, Donald
McIntosh, Melissa Matthes, Vesna Marcina, Martin Morris, Cary Nederman,
Andrea Nicki, Mary O'Brien, Hanna Pitkin, Arlene Saxonhouse, John
Shin, R. Claire Snyder, and Catherine Zuckert. |
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Contents
Preface by Nancy Tuana
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Modernity of Machiavelli
Donald McIntosh
2 Meditations on Machiavelli
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
3 Niccolò Machiavelli: Women as Men, Men as Women, and the
Ambiguity of Sex
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
4 Renaissance Italy: Machiavelli
Wendy Brown
5 The Root of the Mandrake: Machiavelli and Manliness
Mary O’Brien
6 Fortune Is a Woman—But So Is Prudence: Machiavelli’s
Clizia
Catherine H. Zuckert
7 Machiavelli and the Citizenship of Civic Practices
R. Claire Snyder
8 The Seriously Comedic, or Why Machiavelli’s Lucrezia is
not Livy’s Virtuous Roman
Melissa M. Matthes
9 Rhetoric, Violence, and Gender in Machiavelli
Cary J. Nederman and Martin Morris
10 Beyond Virtù
John Juncholl Shin
11 Machiavelli, Civic Virtue, and Gender
Vesna Marcina
12 Rethinking Machiavelli: Feminism and Citizenship
Jane S. Jaquette
13 Machiavelli and Feminist Ethics
Andrea Nicki
Appendix A Summary of La Mandragola
Appendix B Summary of Clizia
Selected Bibliography
Index |
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Maria
J. Falco is Professor Emerita of Political Science at DePauw University.
She has published five previous books, including Feminist Interpretations
of Mary Wollstonecraft (Penn State, 1996).
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