Del 15 - History of European Political and Constitutional Thought

Science Meets Politics: Machiavelli’s Influence and the Birth of Political Science

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Machiavelli’s early influence was more penetrating than has ever been believed, and this book explains why. The surprising answer leads the reader into the depths of the history of science, connecting Machiavelli’s thought to new ways of thinking about experience, history, nature, and politics. This book argues that Machiavelli’s works resonated with readers not merely because of the political and moral questions they raised and answered, but equally because of the ways in which Machiavelli engaged with these questions. His method reinforced the readers’ own belief in the importance of an inductive and comparative approach, which relied on facts and numbers drawn from history and experience.An impressive book that, for a change, measures Machiavelli's writings not against 21st-century binary schemes, but rather against the knowledge categories and strategies of his 16th-century contemporaries and successors. Navigating skillfully among texts and authors both well-known and recondite, the author shows how the Florentine's ideas prompted and shaped a revolution in Western thought.William J Connell, Professor of History, Seton Hall UniversityIf you have ever wondered why Francis Bacon frequently quoted and lavished praise on Niccolò Machiavelli, this is the book for you. In it, Gábor Almási situates the latter with regard to the science of his time and shows that he was read initially in Italy, then in France, and finally in England as the exponent of an empiricism – divorced from theology, metaphysics, and morals – as pertinent to the study of the natural world as it is to the study of politics.Paul A. Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage, Hillsdale College

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-12
Mått155 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt864 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory of European Political and Constitutional Thought
Antal sidor436
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004736931

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 On the Earliest Reception of Machiavelli’s Ideas2 Machiavelli: More Than a Republican Hero3 Machiavelli and Early Modern ‘Science’4 Machiavelli the ‘Scientist’?5 The Structure and Rationale of This Book1 What Was Science in Renaissance Florence?1 The Sciences and the Arts2 Medicine versus Law in Humanist Debates3 Res et Verba4 Science in the Florentine Chancery2 Machiavelli’s Science1 From Machiavelli’s Letter to Becchi to the Discourse on Valdichiana2 The Ghiribizzi to Soderini3 Machiavelli’s Correspondence with Vettori4 History and Reason5 Machiavelli’s Historical Revolt6 The Perspective of Art7 Machiavelli’s Language and Method8 Scientia, Authorities, and Humanism3 Science and Method in Machiavelli’s Early Reception1 Guicciardini on Machiavelli’s Method2 Aristotelian Machiavelli / Machiavellian Aristotle?3 Aristotle’s Method in the Politics4 The Question of Averroism5 Machiavelli’s First Aristotelian-Averroist Enthusiast: Agostino Nifo6 Nifo’s Plagiarism of The Prince7 Girolamo Cardano Reads Machiavelli8 Cardano’s Views on Science4 Experience, Reason, and History: Machiavelli Gains a Name for Himself1 Cardinal Pole Grapples with ‘Experience’2 Machiavelli Read for Action3 Machiavelli’s Science in Le Prince: Gaspar d’Auvergne and the Cappel Family4 Jacques Gohory’s Microcosm and Macrocosm5 Science and Experience Meet historia: Machiavelli’s Latin Translations6 Historia and Francesco Patrizi7 Machiavelli and the ars historica in France5 Machiavelli Goes Underground and Triumphs1 The Tragedy of Saint Bartholomew2 Gentillet’s Anti-Machiavel (1576)3 The Rise of a New Awareness4 A Wealth of Political Literature5 Machiavelli Triumphs in Language: the Medical Metaphors6 Machiavelli Triumphs in Genre: the Hippocratic Aphorisms6 The Advancement of Politics and Science1 New Perspectives: the Global View2 Botero’s Comparative Vision of Greatness3 The Perspective of Work and Action in Botero4 The Perspective of Work and Action in Bacon5 Facts, Information, and Numbers: New Knowledge for Politics6 Bacon’s Science: Power and Happiness?7 ConclusionsBibliographyIndex