The Advisor: Counsel, Concealment, and Machiavelli's Voice. (1st October 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Advisor: Counsel, Concealment, and Machiavelli's Voice. (1st October 2017)
- Main Title:
- The Advisor: Counsel, Concealment, and Machiavelli's Voice
- Authors:
- Goodman, Rob
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Machiavelli's political works should be read not only as attempts to shape princely behavior, but as demonstrations of a model of advisory behavior. They are a performance of advice-giving, of the dispassionate, scientistic – but also quietly radical – behavior Machiavelli expects of those tasked with speaking to power. This model's central feature is concealment of argument and rhetorical intent, a feature inherited from classical rhetoric but put to newly expansive use. This article turns from Machiavelli's appropriation of the "mirror" literature's concept of flattery, a kind of counter-ideal of advisory behavior, to his development of the classical rhetoric of self-effacement. It argues that he puts this rhetorical tradition to newly expansive use – not as a proto-scientist of politics but as a dynamic political actor in his own right – inventing ostensibly neutral dilemmas, classifications, and frames to guide the ruler-reader, as if voluntarily, toward some of his most distinctive conclusions.
- Is Part Of:
- Redescriptions. Volume 20:Number 2(2017)
- Journal:
- Redescriptions
- Issue:
- Volume 20:Number 2(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0020-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 200
- Page End:
- 223
- Publication Date:
- 2017-10-01
- Subjects:
- Machiavelli -- Cicero -- rhetoric -- advice -- flattery -- framing -- rhetorical -- redescription -- "mirrors for princes"
Political science -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
320.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://manchester.metapress.com/content/122826/ ↗
http://www.jyu.fi/yhtfil/redescriptions/articles.htm ↗
https://journal-redescriptions.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.7227/R.20.2.4 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2308-0906
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- Legaldeposit
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