A Dreamer Realist with Imagination: A Critical Review on the Book “The Redeeming Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece”

The present article is an attempt to study the book "The Redeeming Prince": The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece”, by Maurizio Viroli, an Italian professor of political science at the US academia, which is published by Elmi va Farhangi Publication under their "collection of Thoughts and Thinkers" in 1398. In their critique of the book, the authors have tried to use the basis of a particular phenomenological method. Accordingly, and based on the fundamental belief that any critique/interpretation of a text or system of thought is fundamentally related to the critic/commentator's experience of the text or system of thought understudy, they have approached the study of the structure of experience from a phenomenological perspective. After this, they have tried to examine Viroli's text on the basis of this method and to find out how the author of the book has focused on reorganizing the meaning of Machiavelli's "The Prince" on the basis of a new understanding of the Idea of Prince as a redeemer.