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Author Rahe, Paul Anthony.

Title Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic / Paul A. Rahe
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 442 pages)
Contents Prologue: Machiavelli in the English Revolution -- Machiavelli's populist turn -- The ravages of an ambitious idleness -- The classical republicanism of John Milton -- The liberation of captive minds -- Marchamont Nedham and the regicide Republic -- Servant of the rump -- The good old cause -- Thomas Hobbes's republican youth -- The making of a modern monarchist -- The very model of a modern moralist -- The Hobbesian republicanism of James Harrington
Summary "Modern 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 Niccolo 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 Averroes."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Influence
SUBJECT Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. fast (OCoLC)fst00029240
Subject Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government
Republicanism.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056895
Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056798
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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