The Machiavellian Legacy

Essays in Italian Political Thought

By: J. Femia

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Hardcover | 19 October 1998 | Edition Number 1

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What do classical elitists like Pareto and Mosca have in common with Marxists like Labriola and Gramsci? In this collection of essays, Joseph Femia argues that all four thinkers are united by the 'worldly humanism' they inherited from Machiavelli. Their distinctively Italian hostility to the metaphysical abstractions of natural law and Christian theology accounted for similarities in their thought that are obscured by the familiar terminology of 'left' and 'right'. The collection includes critical essays on each of the four thinkers, as well as an introductory chapter on their links with Machiavelli.

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Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
The Machiavellian Legacy	p. 1
Antonio Labriola: a Forgotten Marxist Thinker	p. 64
Gramsci's Patrimony	p. 80
Mosca Revisited	p. 126
Pareto's Concept of Demagogic Plutocracy	p. 145
Index	p. 167
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