|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Niccolò Machiavelli , Christopher LynchPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780226500409ISBN 10: 0226500403 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 01 September 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsChristopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli. - Harvey. Mansfield, Harvard University; Lynch argues convincingly that Art of War's detractors have failed to approach the text in the right way.... If Machiavelli's works bear the mark of a preliberal age, his thought also transcends his age, not least his timeless warning about ideologies that, in the name of abstract principles, ask us to refrain from defending... the nation in which we actually live. - Jacqueline Newmyer, Weekly Standard """Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli."" - Harvey. Mansfield, Harvard University; ""Lynch argues convincingly that Art of War's detractors have failed to approach the text in the right way.... If Machiavelli's works bear the mark of a preliberal age, his thought also transcends his age, not least his timeless warning about ideologies that, in the name of abstract principles, ask us to refrain from defending... the nation in which we actually live."" - Jacqueline Newmyer, Weekly Standard""" Author InformationChristopher Lynch is assistant professor of political science at Carthage College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |