The Machiavellian moment : Florentine political thought and the Atlantic Republican tradition

The Machiavellian moment : Florentine political thought and the Atlantic Republican tradition /

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 whi...

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Main Author: Pocock, J. G. A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Series:Princeton classics.
Subjects:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527 > Political and social views.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527
Machiavelli, Niccolò.
Political science > Italy > History.
Political science > Great Britain > History.
Political science > United States > History.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Renaissance.
Political and social views
Political science
Politische Philosophie
Machiavellismus
Politieke wetenschappen.
Republiek (staatsvorm)
Staatsleer.
Maquiavel, nicolau.
Ciencia politica.
Politica (europa)
Teoria politica.
Great Britain
Italy
United States
Italien
Großbritannien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Particularity and Time: The Conceptual Background
  • I. Problem and Its Modes: Experience, Usage and Prudence
  • II. Problem and Its Modes: Providence, Fortune and Virtue
  • III. Problem and Its Modes: The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile
  • pt. 2. Republic and its Fortune: Florentine Political Thought from 1494 to 1530
  • IV. From Bruni to Savonarola: Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse
  • V. Medicean Restoration: Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516
  • VI. Medicean Restoration: Machiavelli's Il Principe
  • VII. Rome and Venice: Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra
  • VIII. Rome and Venice: Guicciardini'a Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence
  • IX. Giannotti and Contarini: Venice as Concept and as Myth
  • pt. 3. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic
  • X. Problem of English Machiavellism: Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War
  • XI. Anglicization of the Republic: Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen
  • XII. Anglicization of the Republic: Court, Country and Standing Army
  • XIII. Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy: The Augustan Debate over Land, Trade and Credit
  • XIV. Eighteenth-Century Debate: Virtue, Passion and Commerce
  • XV. Americanization of Virtue: Corruption, Constitution, and Frontier.

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