Machiavelli and the modern state: The prince, The discourses on Livy, and the extended territorial republic

"This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccolo Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as st...

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主要作者: Ardito, Alissa M. (Author)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2015
In:Year: 2015
評論:[Rezension von: Ardito, Alissa M., Machiavelli and the Modern State: "The Prince", the "Discourses on Livy" and the Extended Territorial Republic] (2015) (Suchowlansky, Mauricio)
Further subjects:B Republicanism History
B Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)
B State, The Philosophy
B Republics History
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總結:"This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccolo Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger, it was believed only monarchies could govern large territories effectively. Republicanism was a form of government relegated to urban city-states, anachronisms in the new age of the territorial state. For centuries, history and theory were in agreement: constructing an extended republic was as futile as trying to square the circle; but then James Madison devised a compound representative republic that enabled popular government to take on renewed life in the modern era. This work argues that Machiavelli had his own Madisonian impulse and deserves to be recognized as the first modern political theorist to envision the possibility of a republic with a large population extending over a broad territory"--
實物描述:xii, 327 pages, Kt., 24 cm
ISBN:1107061032