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.

Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

History

J. G. A. Pocock

Europe

Princeton University Press

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.

Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (New Portway Reprints)

C.Chivers

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-03-01 Pages: 376 Language: Chinese Publisher: Routledge theme Ancient Constitution and Feudal Law. the study of how 17th-century British view of their past. At that time the British constitutional history of thought as to their faith. to establish the basis of its ancient and above the usual common law. In the 16th and 17th centuries. one of the most important methods of historical research is the study of the law - to show each country's history in part a product of its law. and therefore. in turn. affect their own history. In 17th century England. to clarify the relationship between history and legal studies and pointed out that the process of its political connotations. Pocock shows the 18th century. a more philosophical approach of the research is how to lay its historical background. Contents: The first part of the classical sequence order firs...

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century(Chinese Edition)

Yilin Press

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Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (New Portway Reprints)

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century(Chinese Edition)