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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ardito, Alissa M.
Titre(s) : Machiavelli and the modern state [Texte imprimé] : The prince, The discourses on Livy, and the extended territorial republic / Alissa M. Ardito
Publication : New York : Cambridge university press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol (XII-327 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; 1. The Prince ; 2. The spaces of fortune ; 3. Necessity: the survival
of the republic ; 4. Early modern and eighteenth-century transitions: from principality
to republic and from colonies to extended republic ; 5. Envisioning an extended republic
; Epilogue.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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".
Sujet(s) : Machiavel (1469-1527). Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio
Machiavel (1469-1527). Il principe
État -- Philosophie -- Histoire
Républicanisme -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107061033. - ISBN 1107061032
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442690761
Notice n° :
FRBNF44269076
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