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

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247890803316
• Autore: Pocock J. G. A (John Greville Agard), <1924->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1975
• ISBN: 1-4008-1300-X; 1-282-15754-X; 9786612157547; 1-4008-2462-1
• Edizione: [With a New afterword by the author]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (618 p.)
• Collana: Princeton paperbacks
• Disciplina: 321.8601
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / Western
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "with a new afterword by the author."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.