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Title: The Machiavellian Moment : Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by John Greville Agard Pocock ISBN: 0-691-11472-2 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Machiavelli?
Comment: This book is a masterful testament to man's ability to become immersed in the importance of the force of history. After reading Pocock, there is no way to deny that this same historical force eclipses everyone in its path. It will be years before speaking or writing about Machiavelli apart from his historical moment will be possible. Any student of Machiavelli should avoid Mr. Pocock's book for this very reason.
Rating: 3
Summary: Brilliant but Nebulous
Comment: This book has become a classic of historiography of political thought. However, getting through this enormous work and following the argument from 15th century Italy to 18th century America makes for very difficult reading. It is also quite hard to sum up exactly what is the characteristic of republican thought that he is studying (much of this criticism was made by historian Jack Hexter in a review).
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth the time invested in reading!
Comment: Pocock has written a profoundly exhaustive study of Florentine republican theory in the time of Machiavelli, the Republic, and the Medici restoration. He painstakingly makes his argument that the roots of Machiavelli's thought are to be found more in the metaphysical world view of Thomism than in the teleological taxonomy of Aristotle. He goes on to argue that the aim of Machiavelli, and contemporaries such as Guicciardini, is the attainment of stability in secular time through the proper extension of civic rights. He then goes on to claim that this aim is followed by the architects of Eighteenth Century Anglo-American republicanism. This strong intepretation of Anglo-American republicanism may understate the impact of, for example, the Miltonian view of individual capacity for moral and political reasoning. However, it certainly is expounded well enough here to hold its own in any debate. In passing, Pocock makes liberal use of untranslated Italian text. While this is useful to the Renaissance specialist, it would be helpful had he included translations for those of us who bring no Italian to the table.
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Title: Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History by J. G. A. Pocock ISBN: 0226671399 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner ISBN: 0521293375 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 1978 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner ISBN: 0521638763 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Visions of Politics 3 volume set by Quentin Skinner ISBN: 0521890756 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics' by James Harrington, J. G. A. Pocock ISBN: 0521423295 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 20 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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