Details
The Oligarch
Rewriting Machiavelli's The Prince for Our Time|
37,44 € |
|
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 14.08.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319621692 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
Dieses eBook enthält ein Wasserzeichen.
Beschreibungen
This book uses the structure of Machiavelli’s <i>The Prince</i> to show how governance has changed over the last 500 years. If Machiavelli focuses on power concentrated in the hands of the republic or principalities, The Oligarch looks at how states and companies today function as oligarchies. Rather than dealing with the form of government, it addresses the operations and networks of governance for both states and corporations as a single set of common processes. The author links politics, ecology and literature, by using the literary device of appropriation to raise awareness of ecology and the overreach of powerful people, offering both wielders and critics of power a common ground based on how people in power actually conduct themselves.
<p>Section 1: Types of Oligarchies.- Section 2: Details of Acquisition and Management of Organizations.- Section 3: Oligarchic Forms.- Section 4: Managing Assets in Organizations.- Section 5: Guidance on Oligarchic Comportment.- Section 6: The Projects of Oligarchs.- Section 7: Good Offices.- Section 8: Risk Management and Marketplace Mentality.</p>
<b>James Sherry </b>is the author of 12 books of criticism and poetry, most recently <i>Oops! Environmental Poetics </i>(2013) and <i>Entangled Bank</i> (2016). He is the editor of Roof Books, a literary press (roofbooks.com) in New York City, USA.
<div><div>“Admirers of Machiavelli’s ideas and style will enjoy this slim and provocative book which addresses a topic dear to the Florentine secretary: the role of elites in society and politics. James Sherry adds a new twist by taking account of the work of twentieth century ‘Machiavellians’ such as Gaetano Mosca, early James Burnham, as well as the networks described by ecologists. The result is a smart and ironic view of the contemporary networks of oligarchs, in business as well as in politics and society. Readers interested in such different topics as populism, corporate business, high-level politics and the inevitable Donald Trump will find food for thought—accompanied by Machiavellian wit.” </div><div>–<b>Giovanni Giorgini</b>, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna, Italy and Princeton University, USA</div><div><br/></div><div>“500 years after Machiavelli, James Sherry offers us a modern [and wide-ranging] treatise on the oligarchs who now rule our world and howthey gain and maintain power. One wonders if the pejorative “Sherryan” will be hurled at the power plays of future oligarchs.” </div><div>–<b>Jeff Cohen, Director, </b>Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College, USA</div></div><div><br/></div><div>This book was written from an earlier text, Machiavelli’s <i>The Prince</i>, to show how changes in thinking and in governance work by divergence rather than by romantic revolution or vulgar principles of evolution. The assumptions around change of form are reflected in the way the prior text relates to and diverges from the current book. This notion, derived from theoretical environmentalism and systems analysis, makes change easier to understand and requires fewer contortions than some of the received theories of political systems that pit the rulers against the people, failing to show how conflict of interest among leading cadres is the primary driver of political events.<b><br/></b></div><b><div><b><br/></b></div>James Sherry </b>is the author of 12 books of criticism and poetry, most recently <i>Oops! Environmental Poetics </i>(2013) and <i>Entangled Bank</i> (2016). He is the editor of Roof Books, a literary press (roofbooks.com) in New York City, USA.
Establishes a distinction between form and operations of government and contends that form only accounts for part of the political process and is given too much attention, obscuring the more critical operations of government Appeals to practical intelligence by showing how the form of The Prince can be configured to read quite differently and still reflect the realities of governance at many levels Illustrates how little the operations and issues of governance have changed in 500 years
<div>Establishes a distinction between form and operations of government and contends that form only accounts for part of the political process and is given too much attention, obscuring the more critical operations of government<br/></div><div><br/></div>Appeals to practical intelligence by showing how the form of <i>The Prince</i> can be configured to read quite differently and still reflect the realities of governance at many levels <div><br/></div><div>Illustrates how little the operations and issues of governance have changed in 500 years<br/></div>
“Admirers of Machiavelli’s ideas and style will enjoy this slim and provocative book which addresses a topic dear to the Florentine secretary: the role of elites in society and politics. James Sherry adds a new twist by taking account of the work of twentieth century ‘Machiavellians’ such as Gaetano Mosca, early James Burnham, as well as the networks described by ecologists. The result is a smart and ironic view of the contemporary networks of oligarchs, in business as well as in politics and society. Readers interested in such different topics as populism, corporate business, high-level politics and the inevitable Donald Trump will find food for thought—accompanied by Machiavellian wit.” (Giovanni Giorgini, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna, Italy and Princeton University, USA) <p>“500 years after Machiavelli, James Sherry offers us a modern [and wide-ranging] treatise on the oligarchs who now rule our world and how they gain and maintain power. One wonders if the pejorative ‘Sherryan’ will be hurled at the power plays of future oligarchs.” (Jeff Cohen, Director, Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College, USA)</p>
Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:
Políticas de desarrollo, cohesión social e inserción internacional conjunta para la integración latinoamericana
von: Alberto Van Klaveren, Mamadou Alpha Diallo, Clarisa Giaccaglia, Carla Morasso, Regiane Nitsch Bressan, Bruno Theodoro Luciano, Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira, Virginia Saldaña Ortega, Aparajita Gangopadhyay, Sadcidi Zerpa de Hurtado, Dattesh D. Parulekar, Darynaufal Mulyaman, Jason Rafael Setia Djaya, Muhammad Firdaus Rajendra, Alberto José Hurtado Briceño, Dorotea López Giral
8,49 €
