The Machiavellian Moment : : Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition / / John Greville Agard Pocock.

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• VerfasserIn: Pocock, John Greville Agard,
• MitwirkendeR: Whatmore, Richard,
• TeilnehmendeR: Whatmore, Richard.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Classics ; 93
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (664 p.)

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 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 and he relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought.This Princeton Classics edition of The Machiavellian Moment features a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Particularity and Time -- I. The Problem and Its Modes -- II. The Problem and Its Modes -- III. The Problem and Its Modes -- PART TWO. The Republic and its Fortune -- IV. From Bruni to Savonarola -- V. The Medicean Restoration -- VI. The Medicean Restoration -- VII. Rome and Venice -- VIII. Rome and Venice -- IX. Giannotti and Contarini -- PART THREE. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic -- X. The Problem of English Machiavellism -- XI. The Anglicization of the Republic -- XII. The Anglicization of the Republic -- XIII. Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy -- XIV. The Eighteenth-Century Debate -- XV. The Americanization of Virtue -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX