Machiavelli, Aristotle and Popular Republicanism

Democracy in Early Modern Philosophy

AvAlessandro Mulieri

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Machiavelli, Aristotle, and Popular Republicanism offers the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Machiavelli, Aristotle, and the Aristotelian tradition. Alessandro Mulieri shows that the conceptual language of Aristotelianism not only shaped some of Machiavelli’s most radical ideas but also played a key role in the development of his popular republican thought and his critique of classical republicanism.Employing an interdisciplinary approach that blends the history of political thought, political theory, and the history of philosophy, the book presents an original interpretation of Machiavelli’s engagement with five Aristotelian themes: the nature of political science, the relationship between virtue and fortune, the preservation of tyranny, the premodern notion of democracy as “the rule of the poor”, and the prudence of the multitude.By analysing a wide range of Latin and vernacular Aristotelian texts circulating in Machiavelli’s time, alongside works by several Renaissance thinkers, the book addresses longstanding challenges in interpreting Machiavelli’s relationship with ancient, medieval, and early modern sources, revealing the selective and profoundly strategic nature of his engagement with the premodern tradition.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-22
Mått:156 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350451506

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Alessandro Mulieri is Directeur de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with Triangle – Action, Discours, Pensée Politique et Économique in Lyon. He teaches political theory and the history of political thought at Université Paris Cité and Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern political thought, the history and theory of democracy, and twentieth-century Counter-Enlightenment political thought. His work has appeared in journals including the European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Storia e Politica, Raisons Politiques, History of European Ideas, and Intellectual History Review.

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Mulieri breaks new ground by connecting Machiavelli's political philosophy to Aristotelian thought—a dialogue long neglected in scholarship. This rigorous and well-researched study reveals fresh insights into fundamental questions of political theory. Essential reading for political philosophers and intellectual historians.

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Introduction1. Machiavelli and the Aristotelians on the Origins of Human Society and Prudence2. Machiavelli and Aristotle on Political Science3. Virtue and Fortune in Aristotle, Pontano, and Machiavelli4. From the Aristotelian “Soft” Tyranny to Machiavelli’s Civil Principate5. Democracy as the Rule of the Poor from Aristotle to Machiavelli6. Thinking the Multitude with Aristotle: Machiavelli and the Machiavellians on the Prudence of the ManyConclusionList of References