The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

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John Greville Agard Pocock Richard Whatmore

The Machiavellian Moment

Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

John Greville Agard Pocock, Richard Whatmore

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Princeton University Pres
02 January 2017

Social & political philosophy; History of ideas; Politics & government; Political science & theory; Constitution: government & the state

Series: Princeton Classics

"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."

By: John Greville Agard Pocock
Introduction by: Richard Whatmore
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9780691172231
ISBN 10: 0691172234
Series: Princeton Classics
Pages: 616
Publication Date: 02 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.