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Title: Republicanism by Maurizio Viroli, Antony Shugaar ISBN: 0-8090-8077-X Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 11 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Summary: Reviving republican politics
Comment: Maurizio Viroli's book is a brief and engaging read, animated with a hopeful faith that the republican tradition has relevance in contemporary politics. Like Poe's purloined letter, Viroli would have us see the republican tradition as an overlooked political possibility. Viroli's task, therefore, is to bring out the distinct shape of republican thought from the more familiar trappings of contemporary liberalism. But secondly, he must make clear what has been lost in setting aside republicanism and enlist us in his revival of republican politics.
Viroli argues we should see liberalism as a derivation of the republican tradition not as a necessary successor. He calls liberalism an "impoverished or incoherent republicanism, but not an alternative to republicanism". What liberalism has lost, Viroli argues, is a conception of liberty that takes account of forms of domination that limit individual freedom. He also argues that republican patriotism offers a means of energizing civic life that liberalism lacks. This republican form of patriotism, however, remains distinct from the faults of nationalism or ethnic chauvinism (an argument made more fully in Viroli's earlier book, For Love of Country).
To a large degree, the theoretical points Viroli makes regarding republicanism are drawn from two other recent books, Philip Petit's Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government, and Quentin Skinner's Liberty Before Liberalism. Interested readers would do well to address those two books prior to taking up Viroli. But Viroli brings spirit to this revival of republican thought and his book adds a myriad of illustrative examples of republican thinking from the history of Italian political thought. The pages are animated by the hope that the republican tradition might make a return to the peninsula that has given the world so many great republican theorists (the book was originally written in Italian for an Italian audience) and it is here, in the practical advice for animating republican politics that Viroli demonstrates ingenuity in his use of history and argument. "Contemporary republican theorists should learn from the wisdom of their classical forerunners and think of disputes over political liberty as conflicts between partisan interests and conceptions, not as philosophical debates whose goal it is to ascertain or demonstrate the truth. ... Evaluations of all political actions tend to be partisan, subjective, driven by passions; disputes in the real world are neither scientific nor philosophical but, rather, rhetorical in the classical sense of the term." One hopes that the next evolution in Viroli's work will bring us more of this practical, rhetorical argument for the practice of republican politics, inspired (but not overwhelmed) by the history of republican thought, and thus succeed at even greater persuasion as to the virtues of contemporary republicanism. ~ J. D. Petersen
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Title: Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford Political Theory) by Philip Pettit ISBN: 0198296428 Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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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: Machiavelli and Republicanism by Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner, Maurizio Viroli, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, James Tully ISBN: 0521435897 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Machiavellian Moment : Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by John Greville Agard Pocock ISBN: 0691114722 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Civic Republicanism (The Problems of Philosophy) by Iseult Honohan ISBN: 0415212111 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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