TY  - GEN
AU  - Holman,Christopher
TI  - Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation
SN  - 9781487531591
PY  - 2018///1001
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Political Science
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli's texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice.  Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their equal access to political institutions and orders. Such institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and refinement
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UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26113/1/1003974.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26113/1/1003974.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26100
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