The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
(Paperback, Revised edition)
Publishing Details
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
By (Author) John Greville Agard Pocock
Introduction by Richard Whatmore
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2nd January 2017
Revised edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Constitution: government and the state
Social and political philosophy
History of ideas
321.8601
Physical Properties
Paperback
664
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
624g
Description
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
Reviews
"The Machiavellian Moment reinterpreted the entire history of political ideology in early modern England and America."--T. H. Breen, New York Times
Author Bio
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.
