Machiavelli\'s New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive Study on Machiavelli\'s controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy.
He is the author of Machiavelli\'s Virtue and has translated The Prince , Discourses on Livy (with Nathan Tarcov), and Alexis de Tocqueville\'s Democracy in America (with Delba Winthrop), all published by the University of Chicago Press..
Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Kenan Jr.
Mansfield is the William R.
About the Author Harvey C.
Previously out of print, Mansfield\'s penetrating Study brings to light the hidden thoughts lurking in the details of the Discourses on Livy to inform and challenge its readers at every step along the way.
Mansfield maintains that Machiavelli deliberately concealed part of his intentions so that only the most perceptive reader could see beneath the surface of the text and understand the whole of his book.
Mansfield\'s aim is to discern Machiavelli\'s intention in writing the book: he argues that Machiavelli wanted to introduce new Modes and orders in political philosophy in order to make himself the founder of modern politics.
Mansfield, one of the world\'s foremost interpreters of this remarkable philosopher.
These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli\'s most important work, are thoroughly explained in a chapter-by-chapter commentary by Harvey C.
Machiavelli\'s New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive Study on Machiavelli\'s controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy
