{"product_id":"9781555849269","title":"The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “serious and thoughtful” interpretation of Machiavelli’s life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eTerror and Consent \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, London).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of the most important and controversial works of political theory ever written.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Garments of Court and Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, Bobitt argues that the perception of Machiavelli’s Prince as a ruthless, immoral tyrant stems from mistranslations, political agendas, and readers who overlooked the philosopher’s earlier work, \u003ci\u003eDiscourses on Livy\u003c\/i\u003e. He explains that Machiavelli was instead advocating for rulers to distinguish between their personal ethos and state governance.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Rather than a “mirror book” advising rulers, \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of the neoclassical state. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from the current era, Bobbitt shows Machiavelli’s work is both profoundly moral and inherently constitutional, a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war, law, and the state.","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133723656432,"sku":"9781555849269","price":13.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555849269_p0.jpg?v=1769898926","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555849269","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}