Pocock The Machiavellian Moment

Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8351-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 93, 664 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Classics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pocock, John Greville Agard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Whatmore, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the Princeton Classics edition vii

Introduction xxiii

Part One Particularity and Time:
The Conceptual Background

I The Problem and Its Modes

A) Experience, Usage and Prudence 3

II The Problem and Its Modes

B) Providence, Fortune and Virtue 31

III The Problem and Its Modes

C) The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile 49

Part Two The Republic and its Fortune: Florentine Political Thought from 1494 to 1530

IV From Bruni to Savonarola
Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse 83

V The Medicean Restoration 114

A) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516

VI The Medicean Restoration 156

B) Machiavelli's Il Principe

VII Rome and Venice

A) Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra 183

VIII Rome and Venice

B) Guicciardini's Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence 219

IX Giannotti and Contarini: Venice as Concept and as Myth 272

Part Three Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic

X The Problem of English Machiavellism: Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War 333

XI The Anglicization of the Republic

A) Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen 361

XII The Anglicization of the Republic

B) Court, Country, and Standing Army 401

XIII Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy

The Augustan Debate over Land, Trade and Credit 423

XIV The Eighteenth-Century Debate: Virtue, Passion and Commerce 462

XV The Americanization of Virtue: Corruption, Constitution and Frontier 506

Afterword 553

Bibliography 585

Index 601

Über Autor(innen)

J.G.A. Pocock is the Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include Political Thought and History; Politics, Language, and Time; and The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law. Richard Whatmore is professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews and director of the St. Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution and Against War and Empire.