The significance of Machiavellis political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavellis own republicanism and arguing that it provided the starting point for reflections on the part of Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, David Hume, the baron de Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton that gave rise to liberal republicanism.…mehr
The significance of Machiavellis political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavellis own republicanism and arguing that it provided the starting point for reflections on the part of Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, David Hume, the baron de Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton that gave rise to liberal republicanism.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul A. Rahe is Jay P. Walker Professor of American History at the University of Tulsa. His first book, Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992) was an alternative selection of the History Book Club and was reissued in a three-volume paperback edition by the University of North Carolina Press in 1994. He co-edited Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on the Spirit of Laws (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and has published chapters in numerous other edited works as well as articles in such journals as The American Journal of Philology, The American Historical Review, The Review of Politics, The Journal of the Historical Society, The American Spectator, and The Wilson Quarterly, among others. He is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and various other research fellowships.
Inhaltsangabe
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and brief titles; Introduction: Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy Paul A. Rahe; Prologue: Machiavelli's rapacious republicanism Markus Fischer; Part I. The English Commonwealthmen: 1. Machiavelli in the English revolution Paul A. Rahe; 2. The philosophy of liberty: Locke's Machiavellian teaching Margaret Michelle Barnes Smith; 3. Muted and manifest English Machiavellism: the reconciliation of Machiavellian republicanism with liberalism in Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government and Trenchard's and Gordon's Cato's Letters Vickie B. Sullivan; Part II. The Moderate Enlightenment: 4. Getting our bearings: Machiavelli and Hume John W. Danford; 5. The Machiavellian spirit of Montesquieu's liberal republic Paul Carrese; 6. Benjamin Franklin's 'Machiavellian' civic virtue Steven Forde; Part III. The American Founding: 7. The American prince? George Washington's anti-Machiavellian moment Matthew Spalding; 8. John Adam's Machiavellian moment C. Bradley Thompson; 9. Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian political science Paul A. Rahe; 10. James Madison's princes and peoples Gary Rosen; 11. Was Alexander Hamilton a Machiavellian statesman? Karl-Friedrich Walling; Index.
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and brief titles; Introduction: Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy Paul A. Rahe; Prologue: Machiavelli's rapacious republicanism Markus Fischer; Part I. The English Commonwealthmen: 1. Machiavelli in the English revolution Paul A. Rahe; 2. The philosophy of liberty: Locke's Machiavellian teaching Margaret Michelle Barnes Smith; 3. Muted and manifest English Machiavellism: the reconciliation of Machiavellian republicanism with liberalism in Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government and Trenchard's and Gordon's Cato's Letters Vickie B. Sullivan; Part II. The Moderate Enlightenment: 4. Getting our bearings: Machiavelli and Hume John W. Danford; 5. The Machiavellian spirit of Montesquieu's liberal republic Paul Carrese; 6. Benjamin Franklin's 'Machiavellian' civic virtue Steven Forde; Part III. The American Founding: 7. The American prince? George Washington's anti-Machiavellian moment Matthew Spalding; 8. John Adam's Machiavellian moment C. Bradley Thompson; 9. Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian political science Paul A. Rahe; 10. James Madison's princes and peoples Gary Rosen; 11. Was Alexander Hamilton a Machiavellian statesman? Karl-Friedrich Walling; Index.
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