Discourses on Livy
Discourses on Livy
$11.95

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy

ISBN-13: 978-0226503707, ISBN-10: 0226503704
4.0 on Goodreads
(30)
Loading Images...
Double-tap to zoom
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows.
Buy New
-5% $38.13
FREE delivery Wednesday, May 27
Ships from: Amazon
Sold by: MONROJ
$38.13 with 5 percent savings
List Price: $40.00
FREE delivery Wednesday, May 27
Or Prime members get FREE delivery Sunday, May 24. Join Prime
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$38.13 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$38.13
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon
Amazon
Ships from
Amazon
Sold by
MONROJ
MONROJ
Sold by
MONROJ
Returns
FREE 30-day refund/replacement
FREE 30-day refund/replacement
Quick refund
Usually issued within 24 hours. See exceptions
FREE return
At least one free return option available.
Convenient dropoff
At any of our 50,000 US locations.
See return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Gift options
Available at checkout
Available at checkout This item is a gift. Change
Gift options
At checkout, you can add a custom message, a gift receipt for easy returns and have the item gift-wrapped
$27.34
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$38.13 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$38.13
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by HPB-Diamond.
{"mobile_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$38.13","priceAmount":38.13,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"38","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"13","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"L0%2BshSno3wYfRykRs1grIoaddkulXLZAl%2Fm5r1QvrNyr0u5zEj72Gu%2BpKuzf6j%2BbX3Ta%2BgA%2FTpsTskuRQAGZDKuufpOFOcXitWU2NlHKL%2B8UrgiosAudNnuVuTdCb7wTdlVmDob8Oy2hdkwvlwJT%2BJy6uDBklo5GYJ4yg4VNNyVspUKu49Di6VayXkIcVOpS","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$27.34","priceAmount":27.34,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"27","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"34","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"L0%2BshSno3wYfRykRs1grIoaddkulXLZAHF9RIiO1JmR1tRzP4QuGur%2BHAhEN41hFVyUaOSQrwD87aWx3bRIatYYRKcMCFJofxxEn%2F%2FRf24pqbAEFUC%2FDwSlsmHpiZhlyBVZTrazyvsN%2B04bv7p9RZqI3IB9oi%2BVbNOBk4e5z3bNkp1k4jXUthQ%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Other sellers on Amazon

Compare New & Used (22) from
$28.34

+ $3.99 shipping
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Book details

  1. ISBN-10
    0226503704
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0226503707
  3. Edition
    0002-
  4. Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
  5. Publication date
    April 15, 2001
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    460 pages
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive study on Machiavelli's controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy. These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli's most important work, are thoroughly explained in a chapter-by-chapter commentary by Harvey C. Mansfield, one of the world's foremost interpreters of this remarkable philosopher.

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 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. 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.

From the Inside Flap

In the only full-length interpretive study of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, Harvey C. Mansfield provides a chapter-by-chapter commentary of this controversial and ambiguous work. Mansfield argues that Machiavelli's new modes and orders were intended to undermine the classical and Christian foundations of political philosophy and establish a new foundation not only for modern political philosophy, but for modern politics as well.

This penetrating study, wrought by one of Machiavelli's foremost interpreters, uncovers the hidden intricacies of the Discourses. It will inform and challenge its readers at every step.

From the Back Cover

In the only full-length interpretive study of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, Harvey C. Mansfield provides a chapter-by-chapter commentary of this controversial and ambiguous work. Mansfield argues that Machiavelli's new modes and orders were intended to undermine the classical and Christian foundations of political philosophy and establish a new foundation not only for modern political philosophy, but for modern politics as well.

This penetrating study, wrought by one of Machiavelli's foremost interpreters, uncovers the hidden intricacies of the Discourses. It will inform and challenge its readers at every step.

About the Author

Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. 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.

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Harvey C. Mansfield
Harvey C. Mansfield
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. He has written books on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism, and in favor of a constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and he has translated Machiavelli and Tocqueville. In 2006 he published Manliness, and in 2010 a short work on Tocqueville. His most recent books are Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth; Creating the Modern World (2023) and The Rise and Fall of Rational Control; The History of Modern Political Philosophy (2026).

Chairman of the Government department from 1973 to 1977, Mansfield has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has served on the Advisory Council of the NEH. In 2004 he received the National Humanities Medal from President George W.Bush, and in 2007 delivered the annual Thomas Jefferson lecture sponsored by the NEH He was awarded a Bradley Prize in 2011 and was a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford in 2012-21. But he has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949 and was on the faculty there from 1962, retiring as Research Professor in 2023.

Frequently bought together

+
Machiavelli's Virtue
+
Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

Frequently bought together

This item: Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy
$38.13
Machiavelli's Virtue
Machiavelli's Virtue
$20.99
Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
$34.99
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Total price: $00
Details
Added to Cart
Some of these items ship sooner than the others.

You might also like

You might also like

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Product information

Publisher University of Chicago Press
Publication date April 15, 2001
Edition 0002-
Language ‎English
Print length 460 pages
ISBN-10 0226503704
ISBN-13 978-0226503707
Item Weight ‎1.35 pounds
Dimensions 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank
Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars 11Reviews

Related books

Sponsored
  1. Shop the Store on Amazon ›
    Meditations Deluxe Edition: An Heirloom Volume of the Stoic Classic
    Meditations Deluxe Edition: An Heirloom Volume of the Stoic Classic
    4.44.4 out of 5 stars41
    $27.95 List:$29.99
  2. Shop the Store on Amazon ›
    A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Traveling the Hellenistic World: An Odyssey Through Political Dynasties and Cultural Mosaics
    A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Traveling the Hellenistic World: An Odyssey Through Political Dynasties and Cultural Mosaics
    4.64.6 out of 5 stars136
    $16.99
  3. Shop the Store on Amazon ›
    Antigone - A Clear, Modern English Translation for Students and Readers
    Antigone - A Clear, Modern English Translation for Students and Readers
    3.93.9 out of 5 stars24
    $9.95
  4. Shop the Store on Amazon ›
    Complete Works of Immanuel Kant: Including The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & many others (Grapevine Edition) (The ... Writings and the Foundations of Thought)
    Complete Works of Immanuel Kant: Including The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & many others (Grapevine Edition) (The ... Writings and the Foundations of Thought)
    4.34.3 out of 5 stars62
    $24.99
  5. Shop the Store on Amazon ›
    Modern Stoicism Your Guide to Stoic Philosophy: Master Emotional Resilience, Simplify Life Decisions and Cultivate Mindful Living in Our Fast Paced World
    Modern Stoicism Your Guide to Stoic Philosophy: Master Emotional Resilience, Simplify Life Decisions and Cultivate Mindful Living in Our Fast Paced World
    4.74.7 out of 5 stars462
    $14.99

Customer reviews

5 out of 5 stars
11 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

  • Dave F.
    5 out of 5 stars
    Verified Purchase

    Definitive commentary on Machiavelli

    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2022
    Format: Paperback

    A dense read, appropriate for the subject matter. Prerequisite is to be well-versed in the primary sources. Length of work dictated small font size. Unforutnate that publisher has not produced a Kindle edition that would make it more accessible and amenable to note-taking and comments.

    3 people found this helpful
    Sending feedback...
    Thank you for your feedback.
    Share
    Sending feedback...
    Thanks, we'll investigate in the next few days.
  • Nicholas Antongiavanni
    5 out of 5 stars

    Unique and invaluable

    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2001
    Format: Paperback

    The return of this book to print is a great boon to anyone interested in Machiavelli, or who has ever struggled through the Discourses wondering just what Old Nick is getting at.

    Originally published more than 20 years ago, "New Modes and Orders" remains the only full length commentary on the Discourses ever published in English. As such, it is indespensible, for the Discourses is at once Machiavelli's most difficult and most important book. Those of us who until now have had to rest content with rumaging through library copies dreading the due date will gladly shell out...to have a copy on our own shelves.

    "New Modes" has often been critized for its reserve bordering on circumspection. There is justice in this criticism. This book is not an easy read, and it does not "explain" the difficulties of the Discourses in a way that readers who are not willing to work will find helpful.

    But despite his overall reserve, Mansfield is surprisingly candid on a few points of extreme importance. My own impression is that his method is to state baldly a handful of broad but essential points, and then elusivley wade through a host of details the understanding of which allows us to fill in the gaps between the broad points.

    One example will suffice. You don't need to be well versed in military affairs to realize that practically none of Machiavelli's arguments in Book II of the Discourses makes any sense. Mansfield helps us resolve this difficulty, right at the outset of his treatment of that Book, by plainly stating that Book II is an argument not about physical warfare but about spiritual warfare. It is in fact a long, sustained metaphor in which certain topics and terms serve as stand-ins for Machiavelli's real subjects. Then, having drawn the curtain completely open, just for a second, Mansfield lets it close, and proceeds to his line-by-line discussion of Book II--but only after he has let us know what is really going on, thereby giving us the tools to understand for ourselves what will be discussed in this all-important section.

    I wish also to note that Mansfield is a masterful writer, and that few books--and almost no scholarly books--can claim to be this well done. He is also a very funny man. Machiavelli is lucky to have found a commentator who not only appreciates his sublte jokes but contributes some delightful jokes of his own that are worthy of the master.

    In sum: this book will frustrate you. It will make you sweat and curse and fume. But it rewards the patient.

    61 people found this helpful
    Sending feedback...
    Thank you for your feedback.
    Share
    Sending feedback...
    Thanks, we'll investigate in the next few days.
See more reviews

How customer reviews and ratings work

Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon