The Machiavellian moment : Florentine political thought and the Atlantic republican tradition / John Greville Agard Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Political and social views.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (618 p.)

Edition:

With a New afterword by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, and which he calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the thought of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican thought 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. He relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in the thought of the eighteenth century.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Part One. Particularity and Time. The Conceptual Background

Chapter I. The Problem and Its Modes

Chapter II. The Problem and Its Modes

Chapter III. The Problem and Its Modes

Part Two. The Republic and Its Fortune. Florentine Political Thought from 1494 To 1530

Chapter IV. From Bruni to Savonarola

Chapter V. The Medicean Restoration

Chapter VI. The Medicean Restoration

Chapter VII. Rome and Venice

Chapter VIII. Rome and Venice

Chapter IX. Giannotti and Contarini Myth

Part Three. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic

Chapter X. The Problem of English Machiavellism

Chapter XI. The Anglicization of the Republic

Chapter XII. The Anglicization of The Republic

Chapter XIII. Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy

Chapter XIV. The Eighteenth-Century Debate

Chapter XV. The Americanization of Virtue

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"with a new afterword by the author."

Includes bibliography and index.

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ISBN:

9786612157547

9781400813001

140081300X

9781282157545

128215754X

9781400824625

1400824621

OCLC:

436045770