The Machiavellian Moment : Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition / J. G. A. Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924-2023, author.

Contributor:

Whatmore, Richard.

Series:

Princeton classics.

Princeton Classics ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Great Britain--History.

Political science.

Political science--Italy--History.

Political science--United States--History.

Great Britain.

Italy.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 634 pages)

Edition:

[New edition] / with a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 "Machiavellian moment."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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION / Whatmore, Richard

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. Particularity and Time

I. The Problem and Its Modes

II. The Problem and Its Modes

III. The Problem and Its Modes

PART TWO. The Republic and its Fortune

IV. From Bruni to Savonarola

V. The Medicean Restoration

VI. The Medicean Restoration

VII. Rome and Venice

VIII. Rome and Venice

IX. Giannotti and Contarini

PART THREE. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic

X. The Problem of English Machiavellism

XI. The Anglicization of the Republic

XII. The Anglicization of the Republic

XIII. Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy

XIV. The Eighteenth-Century Debate

XV. The Americanization of Virtue

AFTERWORD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400883516

1400883512

OCLC:

956554916