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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Pocock
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Description for The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Paperback. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 664 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCX; JPA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 48. Weight in Grams: 624.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Princeton Classics
Condition
New
Weight
623g
Number of Pages
664
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691172231
SKU
V9780691172231
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About Pocock
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
The Machiavellian Moment reinterpreted the entire history of political ideology in early modern England and America.
T. H. Breen, New York Times
T. H. Breen, New York Times