Conflicts Of Loyalty, Or The Sociogenesis Of Corruption
Conflicts Of Loyalty, Or The Sociogenesis Of Corruption

Summary/Abstract: What are the origins of political consciousness? How does our understanding of political power and its exercise originate in literature? What do we reveal about the nature of corruption and the rule of law rethinking Machiavelli and Shakespeare? In this article, focus will be on conflicts of loyalty and the sociogenesis of corruption, as depicted in early modern litreature. In addition, corruption will be analysed as a watershed between premodern and modern political and moral sensibilities.

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