The liberty of servants - Maurizio Viroli
Berlusconi's Italy
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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 control of government and the media, immense wealth, and infamous lack of self-restraint. Challenging our most cherished notions about liberty, Viroli argues that even if a power like Berlusconi's has been established in the most legitimate manner and people are not denied their basic rights, the mere existence of such power makes those subject to it unfree. Most Italians, following the lead of their elites, lack the min...
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2011Uitgever: Princeton University Press178 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691151822ISBN-13: 9780691151823Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Viroli, Maurizio] [Pagina's: 178] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: The Liberty of Servants. Berlusconi's Italy]
