Flattery and the History of Political Thought

Flattery and the History of Political Thought

That Glib and Oily Art

Kapust, Daniel J.

Cambridge University Press

01/2018

238

Dura

Inglês

9781107043367

15 a 20 dias

450

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Introduction; 1. 'Suffer no man to be king': friendship, liberty, and status in Roman political thought; 2. Without 'superfluous ornament': Castiglione, Machiavelli, and the performance of counsel; 3. 'The Monarch's plague': the problem of flattery and Hobbes's contingently unitary sovereign; 4. 'The bewitching engine': Mandeville and Smith on flattery, praise, and the origins of language; 5. 'Flattering to young ambitious minds': representing America in the ratification; Conclusion.
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