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

Maurice Joly

doi:10.5771/9780739154199

Summary

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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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2002
Copyright Year: 2002
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-0337-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-5419-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 394
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. Title Page No access
2. Short Introductory Statement No access
3. 1. First Part No access
  2. Second Part No access
  3. Third Part No access
  4. Fourth Part No access
1. 1. Chapter 1 The Essential Differencees between Machiavelli and Montesquieu No access
  2. Chapter 2 An Elaboration of the Respective Political Teachings No access
2. 1. Chapter 3 The Political Revolution I No access
  2. Chapter 4 The Political Revolution II No access
  3. Chapter 5 The Economic Revolution No access
  4. Chapter 6 The Moral Revolution No access
3. 1. Chapter 7 The Saint-Simonian Historical Element No access
  2. Chapter 8 The Saint-Simonian Religious Elements No access
4. 1. Chapter 9 Joly and the Portrait of Machiavelli No access
5. 1. Chapter 10 Solving the Enigma of Louis Napoleon No access
  2. Chapter 11 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion No access
Appendix: Macaulay's Machiavelli No access Pages 369 - 376
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 377 - 380
Index to Dialogue in Hell No access Pages 381 - 384
Index to Commentary No access Pages 385 - 392
About the Author No access Pages 393 - 394