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The Machiavellian Moment Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
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The Machiavellian Moment Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition Paperback - 2003

by John Greville Agard Pocock


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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.

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A SUSTAINED INTENTION throughout this book will be that of depicting early modern republican theory in the context of an emerging historicism, the product of the ideas and conceptual vocabularies which were available to medieval and Renaissance minds-such as C.S. Lewis called "Old Western"-for the purpose of dealing with particular and contingent events and with time as the dimension of contingent happenings.

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  • Title The Machiavellian Moment Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
  • Author John Greville Agard Pocock
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 640
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date January 27, 2003
  • ISBN 9780691114729

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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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