书名: The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
作者: John Greville Agard Pocock (Author)
出版社: Princeton University Press (1975)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0691075603
ISBN-13: 978-0691075600
Book Description
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.
Review
"The Machiavellian Moment raised a thousand issues, settled two or three, and gave historians and philosophers a generation's work. It is a must-read and a must-have." -- Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"In analyzing the history of consciousness as explicated through philosophers, political theorists, historians, theologians, lawyers, and prophets, [this book] presents a new interpretation of wide-ranging problems. It should be of great value to scholars in many disciplines concerned with the history of ideas." -- Marvin B. Becker
About the Author
J.G.A. Pocock is Professor Emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University. His books include "The Political Works of James Harrington; Virtue, Commerce and History; Barbarism and Religion, I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon;" and "Barbarism and Religion, II: Narratives of Civil Government".
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作者: John Greville Agard Pocock (Author)
出版社: Princeton University Press (1975)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0691075603
ISBN-13: 978-0691075600
Book Description
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.
Review
"The Machiavellian Moment raised a thousand issues, settled two or three, and gave historians and philosophers a generation's work. It is a must-read and a must-have." -- Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"In analyzing the history of consciousness as explicated through philosophers, political theorists, historians, theologians, lawyers, and prophets, [this book] presents a new interpretation of wide-ranging problems. It should be of great value to scholars in many disciplines concerned with the history of ideas." -- Marvin B. Becker
About the Author
J.G.A. Pocock is Professor Emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University. His books include "The Political Works of James Harrington; Virtue, Commerce and History; Barbarism and Religion, I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon;" and "Barbarism and Religion, II: Narratives of Civil Government".
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