{"product_id":"against-throne-and-altar-machiavelli-and-political-theory-under-the-english-republic-paperback-9780521123952","title":"Against Throne and Altar; Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic (Paperback) 9780521123952","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAgainst Throne and Altar\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMachiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the political thinking of four men - John Milton, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul A. Rahe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521123952, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 7 September 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e436 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This erudite work presents a novel interpretation of Machiavelli's republicanism, and then seeks to trace its influence on the thought of several seventeenth-century English writers. … Rahe's book surveys an enormous swath of intellectual history and political thought … and relates much of it in novel, complex and challenging ways. … a seminal contribution' The Journal of the Review of Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eModern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances - owes an immense debt to the republican experiment conducted in England between 1649, when Charles I was executed, and 1660, when Charles II was crowned. Though abortive, this experiment left a legacy in the political science articulated both by its champions, John Milton, Marchamont Nedham, and James Harrington, and by its sometime opponent and ultimate supporter, Thomas Hobbes. This volume examines these four thinkers, situates them with regard to the novel species of republicanism first championed in the early 1500s by Niccolò Machiavelli, and examines the debt that he and they owed the Epicurean tradition in philosophy and the political science crafted by the Arab philosophers Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroës.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue: Machiavelli in the English Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Machiavelli's New Republicanism: 1. Machiavelli's populist turn\u003cbr\u003e 2. The ravages of an ambitious idleness\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Revolutionary Aristotelianism: 3. The classical republicanism of John Milton\u003cbr\u003e 4. The liberation of captive mind\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Machiavellian Republicanism Anglicized: 5. Marchamont Nedham and the regicide republic\u003cbr\u003e 6. Servant of the rump\u003cbr\u003e 7. The good old cause\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Thomas Hobbes and The New Republicanism: 8. Thomas Hobbes' republican youth\u003cbr\u003e 9. The making of a modern monarchist\u003cbr\u003e 10. The very model of a modern moralist\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Hobbesian Republicanism of James Harrington\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909165768984,"sku":"9780521123952","price":30.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521123952i_49885a82-a8e8-4f8b-bad5-3380613b0bba.jpg?v=1691371795","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/against-throne-and-altar-machiavelli-and-political-theory-under-the-english-republic-paperback-9780521123952","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}