The Machiavellian Moment
Subtitle: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 27, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780691114729
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Politics / Current Events; History; History: American; USA; Western Continental Europe; General; European History; History / Europe / Western; Philosophy; Political Science and International Relations; Western Europe - General
First sentence: A SUSTAINED INTENTION throughout this book will be that of depicting early modern republican theory in the context of an emerging historicism, the product of the ideas and conceptual vocabularies which were available to medieval and Renaissance minds-such as C.S. Lewis called "Old Western"-for the purpose of dealing with particular and contingent events and with time as the dimension of contingent happenings.