Introduction
David C. Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara
Part One: Between Antiquity and Modernity
1. Machiavelli on Necessity
Harvey C. Mansfield
2. Machiavelli on Good and Evil: The Problem of Dirty Hands Revisited
Giovanni Giorgini
3. Machiavelli and the Critics of Rome: Rereading
Discourses I.4
Gabriele Pedullà
4. Machiavelli, “Ancient Theology,” and the Problem of Civil Religion
Miguel Vatter
Part Two:
The Prince and the Politics of Necessity
5. Machiavelli and the Misunderstanding of Princely
Virtù
Quentin Skinner
6. The Necessity to Be Not-Good: Machiavelli’s Two Realisms
Erica Benner
7. Loyalty in Adversity
Stephen Holmes
8. Machiavelli and the Modern Tyrant
Paul A. Rahe
Part Three: Class Struggle, Financial Power, and Extraordinary Authority in the Republic
9. Machiavelli and the Gracchi: Republican Liberty and Class Conflict
Benedetto Fontana
10. Machiavelli, the Republic, and the Financial Crisis
Jérémie Barthas
11. Extraordinary Accidents in the Life of Republics: Machiavelli and Dictatorial Authority
Marco Geuna
Part Four: Machiavellian Politics beyond Machiavelli
12. The Reception of Machiavelli in Contemporary Republicanism: Some Ambiguities and Paradoxes
Jean-Fabien Spitz
13. On the Myth of the Conservative Turn in Machiavelli’s
Florentine Histories
John P. McCormick
14. Political Imagination, Conflict, and Democracy: Machiavelli’s Republican Realism
Luca Baccelli
15.
“Armi proprie e improprie” in the Work of Some Representative Italian Readers of the Twentieth Century
Michele Battini
16. What Does a “Conjuncture-Embedded” Reflection Mean? The Legacy of Althusser’s Machiavelli to Contemporary Political Theory
Marie Gaille
Contributors
Index