Machiavelli's The Prince A Renaissance Narrative of Fortuna and Virtue
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.06.2025
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
78
Maße (L/B/H)
25,4/17,8/0,4 cm
Gewicht
153 g
Übersetzt von
Jason Kassel
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-968044-44-2
What if The Prince is not a manual for power-but a story about losing control?
The Prince: A Renaissance Narrative of Fortuna and Virtù presents Machiavelli's classic in a bold new light. In this powerful, concept-driven translation, Jason Kassel, PhD frames The Prince not as a cynical how-to guide for tyrants, but as a dramatic narrative about political survival, moral compromise, and the unpredictable force of Fortuna.
Drawing on Renaissance drama, Twain's realism, and E.M. Forster's theory of character, this version treats each chapter as a movement in a larger story: a brilliant political mind trying to shape the world-only to realize he may be shaped by it. Kassel's translation retains the precision of Machiavelli's logic while enhancing its literary structure. Gone is the artificial stiffness of early-modern English. In its place: clean, verb-driven, theatrical prose.
What's different about this translation:
Fortuna is always capitalized, restoring her role as a symbolic force-not just "luck," but a mythic power that mocks human control.
Virtù is allowed to evolve, beginning as cunning force and ending in a final reflection on virtue reclaimed.
The translator uses short sentences, modern language, and recursive revision-through a partnership with a large language model-to test every metaphor, rhythm, and philosophical turn.
The book includes:
A translator's introduction explaining the structure: Renaissance drama, character arcs, and Machiavelli's rhetorical pacing
Clear section markers showing the transformation from early virtù to final virtue
No euphemism: every manipulation, every mask, and every rhetorical trap is made explicit
This edition is ideal for students of political theory, Renaissance literature, philosophy, and anyone grappling with power in unstable times. Machiavelli's The Prince has long been misunderstood as a cold-blooded manual. This translation shows it as something deeper-a reckoning with human limits, the forces we try to control, and the kind of person we must become when power is no longer enough.
If you want a translation that is both conceptually faithful and dramatically alive-this is the edition for you.
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