TY  - BOOK
AU  - Igor Kąkolewski
AU  - Jan Burzyński
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3528
SN  - 9783631849514
TI  - Melancholy of Power
T2  - Perception of Tyranny in European Political Culture of the 16th Century
DO  - 10.3726/b18167
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1117746
N2  - The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as ‘tyranny’, were presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and literature in Italy, France, England, Scotland, German countries, and Poland-Lithuania. Using a unique interdisciplinary methodology, the book is both timeless and timely as it demonstrates various approaches of acknowledged Renaissance intellectuals to the problem of tyranny and how best to avoid or fight it. The author consciously avoids categories of the classic history of ideas or political thought and instead reveals broader intellectual and cultural connections in the perception of tyranny in the 16th century and its impact on modern debates on different dangers of political abuses of power.
KW  - Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More, Political philosophy, Civil resistance, Renaissance, Reformation
LA  - English
ER  -