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The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny

By John S , Joly , Maurice; Waggoner

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2002
ISBN
0-7391-0337-7, 9780739103371, 0-7391-0699-6
Language
englishfrench
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18621549 bytes)
Series
Applications of political theory
Pages
394\419
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
France -- Politics and government -- 1852-1870. Po

Description

The Dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli is the source of the world's most infamous literary forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. John Waggoner's superb translation of and commentary on Joly's Dialogue―the first faithful translation in English―seeks not only to update the sordid legacy of the Protocols but to redeem Joly's original work for serious study in its own right, rather than through the lens of antisemitism. Waggoner's work vindicates a man who was neither an antisemite nor a supporter of the kind of tyrannical politics the Protocols subsequently served and presents Maurice Joly, once much maligned and too long ignored, as one of the nineteenth century's foremost political thinkers

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