The Machiavellian Moment (eBook)

Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

John Greville Agard Pocock (Autor)

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2016
664 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8351-6 (ISBN)

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J.G.A. Pocock is the Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include Political Thought and History; Politics, Language, and Time; and The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law.  Richard Whatmore is professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews and director of the St. Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution and Against War and Empire.

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Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which Pocock calls the "e;Machiavellian moment."e;After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican ideology in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance and he relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought.This Princeton Classics edition of The Machiavellian Moment features a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Einführung: Richard Whatmore
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Ambiguity • Ambivalence • America • American consciousness • American constitution • American Revolution • anglicization • Antinomianism • Antithesis • aristocracy • Aristotle • Arte della Guerra • awareness • body politic • Britain • Cambridge University Press • Career • Cato's Letters • changes in perception • C. H. McIlwain • Christian thought • Citizenship • Civic consciousness • Civic Humanism • civic patriotism • civic virtue • Civil Society • Civil War • classical republic • classical republicanism • Commonwealth • Consiglio Grande • Constitutional theory • Corruption • Cosimo de' Medici • Courtier • Criticism • deed • Deism • Democracy • Determination • Dialectic • dialogo • Discorsi • Donato Giannotti • Eighteenth-century thought • England • English law • English Machiavellianism • English political order • Epistemology • Eschatology • Ethos • European History • European politics • Explanation • false consciousness • Federalism • Florence • Florentine government • Florentine politics • florentine republic • Florentine republican tradition • Florentine thought • Forms of Government • Fortuna • fortune • Francesco Guicciardini • Gasparo Contarini • Giannotti • Giovanni Cavalcanti • Girolamo Savonarola • God • Guicciardini • Hans Baron • Harringtonian republicanism • Harvard University Press • Historical change • Historiography • Ideology • Il Principe • Institution • Interregnum • John Fortescue • John Locke • Late Antiquity • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Leonardo Bruni • Liberalism • Literature • Machiavelli • Machiavellianism • Machiavellian moment • Machiavellian republicanism • Machiavellian thought • Machiavellism • Marxism • Medicean rule • Medieval Political Thought • mercenary • military virtue • mito de Venezia • mixed constitution • mixed government • Modernity • Monarchy • Montesquieu • Morality • Multitude • neo-Machiavellian political economy • Niccolo Machiavelli • Niccolò Machiavelli • Niccolo Machiavellli • Nobility • Oligarchy • ottimati • parliamentary monarchy • Patriarcha • Patriotism • Personality • petrarch • Philosopher • Philosophy • Plato • Polis • political apocalyptic • Political Economy • political experience • political innovators • political particularity • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political thought • Politician • Politics • Populism • Postmodernism • Prerogative • Princeton University Press • Principate • Prophecy • Providence • providential time • Puritans • Quentin Skinner • Radicalism (historical) • Rationality • Renaissance • Renaissance political thought • Republic • republican ideal • republican ideology • Republicanism • republican theory • Republican Virtue • restoration England • rhetoric • Ricordi • Rome • Ruler • Saeculum • Secularization • secular particularity • secular political self-consciousness • Separation of Powers • signoria • Slavery • social consciousness • Social Theory • Society • Sovereignty • Statute • Superiority (short story) • Tax • temporal consciousness • The Machiavellian Moment • theocracy • theory • The Philosopher • Thomas Hobbes • treatise • Two Treatises of Government • Tyrant • Vassal • Venality • Venetian commonwealth • Venetian politics • Venice • Virt • virtue • Vita activa • vivere civile • Wealth • Whiggism • Whigs (British political party) • Writing • Writings
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8351-2 / 1400883512
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8351-6 / 9781400883516