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Amoral Politics -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. MACHIAVELLISM DESCRIBED -- 1. The Machiavellis Introduced -- 2. The Machiavellian Legalism of Ancient China -- 3. The Machiavellian Political Science of Ancient India -- 4. The Machiavellism of Renaissance Italy -- 5. Machiavellism Everywhere? -- II. MACHIAVELLISM DISCUSSED -- 6. Moral Abstractions and Human Realities -- 7. Nonutopian Observations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

In The Dilemma of Context, Scharfstein contends that the problems encountered with context are insoluble. He explains why this problem lays an intellectual burden on us that, while remaining inescapable, can become so heavy it destroys the understanding it was created to further.