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Flattery and the History of Political Thought

That Glib and Oily Art

By: Daniel J. Kapust

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Flattery and the History of Political Thought

That Glib and Oily Art

By: Daniel J. Kapust

Flattery is an often overlooked political phenomenon, even though it has interested thinkers from classical Athens to eighteenth-century America. Drawing a distinction between moralistic and strategic flattery, this book offers new interpretations of a range of texts from the history of political thought. Discussing Cicero, Pliny, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Mandeville, Smith, and the Federalist/Anti-Federalist debates, the book engages and enriches contemporary political theory debates about rhetoric, republicanism, and democratic theory, among other topics. Flattery and the History of Political Thought shows both the historical importance and continued relevance of flattery for political theory. Additionally, the study is interdisciplinary in both subject and approach, engaging classics, literature, rhetoric, and history scholarship; it aims to bring a range of disciplines into conversation with each other as it explores a neglected - and yet important - topic.

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Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

By: Daniel J. Kapust

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Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

By: Daniel J. Kapust

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book develops interpretations of the three historians' writings centering on their treatments of liberty, rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is interpreted as an antagonistic republican, for whom elite conflict serves as an outlet and channel for the antagonisms of political life. Livy is interpreted as a consensualist republican, for whom character and its observation helps to maintain the body politic. Tacitus is interpreted as being centrally concerned with the development of prudence and as a subtle critic of imperial rule.

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Flattery and the History of Political Thought

That Glib and Oily Art

By: Daniel J. Kapust

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Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

By: Daniel J. Kapust

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Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

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Flattery and the History of Political Thought

Flattery and the History of Political Thought

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Flattery and the History of Political Thought

Flattery and the History of Political Thought

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought

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