Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the formation of a liberal republicanism in England / / Vickie B. Sullivan [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457703303321
• Autore: Sullivan Vickie B.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14923-1; 1-280-45802-X; 0-511-18608-8; 0-511-18525-1; 0-511-18794-7; 0-511-32707-2; 0-511-50969-3; 0-511-18701-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320.51/0941/09032
• Soggetti: Political science - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Political science - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Liberalism - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Liberalism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Political science - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-278) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machiavelli's Republicanism -- Hobbes on peace, the passions, and politics -- Marchamont Nedham and the beginnings of a liberal republicanism -- The distinctive modern republicanism of James Harrington -- Henry Neville's proposal for a republic under the form of monarchy -- Algernon Sidney as anticipator of Locke and secret admirer of Machiavelli -- Cato's thought as the reconciliation of Machiavellian Republicanism and Lockean Liberalism.
• Sommario/riassunto: Certain English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whom scholars often associate with classical republicanism, ; were not, in fact, hostile to liberalism. Indeed, these thinkers contributed to a synthesis of liberalism and modern republicanism. As this book argues, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Henry Neville, Algernon Sidney, and John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the co-authors of a series of editorials entitled Cato's Letters, provide a synthesis that responds to the demands of both republicans and liberals by offering a politically engaged citizenry as well as the protection of individual rights. The book also reinterprets the writings of Machiavelli and Hobbes to show that each contributed in a fundamental way to the formation of this liberal republicanism.