Machiavelli and the Contestable Surface: Zuckert and Strauss

In: The review of politics, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 283-288

Abstract

AbstractBoth Zuckert and Strauss take the "surface" of Machiavelli's work as the necessary starting point for their interpretations. Zuckert differs from Strauss, however, with respect to what she takes the surface to be. She focuses more attentively on the literary character of the work, as written or literary, and so is led to a different series of observations and emphases in her interpretation of Machiavelli.