Discourses on Livy

论李维

基本信息

Author：Niccolo Machiavelli

Format：Paperback | 448 pages

Dimensions：128 x 196 x 20mm | 317g

Publication date：11 Dec 2008

Publisher：Oxford University Press

Language：English

ISBN10：0199555559

ISBN13：9780199555550

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《论李维》写于1531年，对于理解马基雅维利来说，它和他的著名论文《君主论》一样重要。同样有争议的是，它揭示了他对共和国家的基本偏好。

将古罗马人的做法与他同时代的人的做法进行比较，为马基雅维利在他所有的作品中提供了一个一致的观点。马基雅维利对李维的罗马历史的深入分析，使他提出了自己最原始和最坦率的政治观点——即一个健康的政治体的特征是社会摩擦和冲突，而不是僵化的稳定。他在《论李维》中对阴谋论的讨论是迄今为止对典型政治动荡最复杂的处理之一。在政治专制主义日益盛行的时代，马基雅维利的理论成为了一种危险的意识形态。

这个新的译本有丰富的注释，为当代读者提供了足够的历史、语言和政治信息，以理解和解释马基雅维利基对他在李维身上发现的历史证据所作的革命断言。

关于这个系列：100多年来，牛津的世界经典已经提供了最广泛的文学来自世界各地。每一本书都价格适中，反映了牛津大学对学术的承诺，提供了最准确的文本加上大量其他有价值的特征，包括由领导权威的专家介绍，澄清文本的大量注释，进一步研究的*新书目，以及更多。

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.

Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Machiavelli's close analysis of Livy's history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view of politics--the belief that a healthy political body was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability. His discussion of conspiracies in Discourses on Livy is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval ever written. In an age of increasing political absolutism, Machiavelli's theories became a dangerous ideology.

This new translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic, and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical evidence he found in Livy.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

作者简介

马基雅维利(1469-1527)是意大利文艺复兴时期的外交家、政治家和哲学家。现代政治哲学和政治科学是建立在马基雅维利的著作之上的。他在佛罗伦萨共和国担任了多年的高级官员，负责外交和军事事务。当美第奇家族掌权后，他被关进监狱，然后退休，开始写作他的政治哲学著作。

哈维·C·曼斯菲尔德是哈佛大学的小威廉·R·凯南政府学教授。他著有《马基雅维利的美德》，翻译过《君主论》、《论李维》(与内森·塔尔科夫合著)、《亚历克西·德·托克维尔的美国民主》(与德尔巴·温斯洛普合著)。

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a diplomat, politician, and philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. Modern political philosophy and political science is founded on Machiavelli's writings. He served for many years as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. When the Medicis came to power, he was imprisoned and then retired to the writing of his works of political philosophy.  

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.

目录

Introduction 

Translators' Note 

Select Bibliography 

A Chronology of Niccolo Machiavelli 

DISCOURSES ON LIVY 

Explanatory Notes