Word: machiavellis
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Segal then proceeds to discuss the works of Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli (yes, he of the famous political treatise) Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ben Jonson and Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting...
Strangely, Mansfield seemed to recognize the reasons against punishing students for the sins of their professors last year in his elective course, Government 1061, “Modern Political Thought From Machiavelli to Nietzche,” a course chosen by students rather than required of them. In that class, students were given two grades—one representing what Mansfield felt they deserved, and another re-centered on average grading data obtained from the Office of the Registrar. At that time, Mansfield said that his conscience had tired of punishing the students that chose to take his course. However...
...last year, Empire, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, has been translated into four languages, with six more on the way. It is selling briskly on Amazon.com and is impossible to find in Manhattan bookstores. For 413 pages of dense political philosophy--whose compass ranges from body piercing to Machiavelli--that's impressive...
...while. But after eighteen (or is it nineteen?) consecutive challenge victories, Colby looks to have outran and outlasted the curse, and the betting here is that resentment or not, the jury has probably come around to the fact that without a schemer-in-chief to take the Machiavelli prize this season, the man deserves the million on physical and mental prowess alone...
That’s right. Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz and all those other boutique theorizers aren’t relevant anymore, and war is no longer about inflicting, or plausibly threatening to inflict, more pain than the other side can bear. Christiane Amanpour and CNN change everything...