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Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World, 1880-1940

Liberal and Anti-Liberal Political Thought in Comparative Perspective

Leandro Losada

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Edinburgh University Press
11 March 2025
Combining historiography and political theory, this book compares different strands of Machiavelli's reception in South and North America, and between Hispanic America and Spain. It provides new insight into Machiavelli's writings and how they have been read in different contexts. The book analyses these readings focusing on some specific themes including: the relationship between politics and morals; the links between political power and freedom; debates about political realism; reflections on liberalism and republicanism; and conceptions of time and history. The book argues that Machiavelli had a significant impact on both liberal and anti-liberal authors from Argentina and Spain. For liberals, he represented a synonym of tyranny but also, in opposite way, he had offered a synthesis between republicanism and liberalism. For anti-liberals, he was associated with Modernity and liberalism.
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Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781399515368
ISBN 10:   1399515365
Pages:   272
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Leandro Losada is Researcher of the State Council for Research of Argentina (CONICET) and Director of the Institute for Political Research (CONICET-UNSAM). He is also a former Wallace Fellow at the Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Maquiavelo en la Argentina. Usos y lecturas, 1830-1940 [Machiavelli in Argentina. Uses and readings, 1830-1940]. Katz Editores, Buenos Aires, 2019, Política y vida pública. Argentina, 1930-1943, /i> [Politics and public life. Argentina, 1930-1943]. Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, 2017 and Marcelo T. de Alvear. Revolucionario, presidente y líder republicano [Marcelo T. de Alvear. Revolutionary, president and republican leader]. Edhasa, Buenos Aires, 2016. This will be his first English-language monograph.

Reviews for Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World, 1880-1940: Liberal and Anti-Liberal Political Thought in Comparative Perspective

"This brilliant book restores the influence Machiavelli had on the modern Spanish-speaking Atlantic world. Avoiding clich�, this book reveals the debts of Liberals, Catholics and Republicans to the notions conceived from the radical autonomy of the political. By both revisiting old and posing new questions, Losada offers renewed answers, and forces us to think again about the Hispanic world's reading of Machiavelli. -- ""�ngel Duarte, Universidad de C�rdoba"""


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