The Machiavellian moment
Subtitle: Florentine political thought and the Atlantic Republican tradition
By: J.G.A. Pocock ; with a new introduction by Richard Whatmore
Edition: Princeton Classics edition.
Series: Princeton classics; Princeton classics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9780691172231
Subjects: Political science; History
Notes: Originally published in 1975. With a new introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Particularity and Time : the Conceptual Background. I. The Problem and Its Modes : A) Experience, Usage and Prudence ; II. The Problem and Its Modes : B) Providence, Fortune and Virtue ; III. The Problem and Its Modes : C) the Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile ; Part Two. The Republic and Its Fortune : Florentine Political Thought from 1494 to 1530. IV. From Bruni to Savonarola : Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse ; V. The Medicean Restoration : A) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516 ; VI. The Medicean Restoration : B) Machiavelli's Il Principe ;  VII. Rome and Venice : A) Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra ; VIII. Rome and Venice : B) Guicciardini's Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence ; IX. Giannotti and Contarini : Venice as Concept and as Myth ; Part Three. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic. X. The Problem of English Machiavellism : Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War ; XI. The Anglicization of the Republic : A) Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen ; XII. The Anglicization of the Republic : B) Court, Country and Standing Army ; XIII. Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy : the Augustan Debate over Land, Trade and Credit ; XIV. The Eighteenth-Century Debate : Virtue, Passion and Commerce ; XV. The Americanization of Virtue : Corruption, Constitution and Frontier.