The liberty of servants : Berlusconi's Italy / Maurizio Viroli ; translated by Antony Shugaar with a new preface by the author.
Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants....
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| Language: | English Italian |
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| Summary: | Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants. Drawing upon the classical republican conception of liberty, Viroli shows that a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressed. This condition of unfreedom arises as a consequence of being subject to the arbitrary or enormous power of men like Berlusconi, who presides over Italy with his. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Italian under the title: La liberta dei servi. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 178 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400840274 1400840279 1283267470 9781283267472 9786613267474 6613267473 |
