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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 February 2010
      10 September 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511521485
      9780521414937
      9780521673433
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521485
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.541kg, 344 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (22)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Ideas in Context (22)
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    Between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, the language of politics underwent a radical transformation. The author argues that this transformation amounted to a 'revolution of politics', global in scope, and wide-ranging in its intellectual and moral implications. Not only did the meaning and the range of application of the concept of politics change, but also the status of political science, the role of political education, and the value of political liberty. For three centuries politics had enjoyed the status of the noblest human science, but emerged from the revolution as an ignoble, sordid and depraved activity. It was no longer the means of fighting corruption, but the means of perpetuating it. This 'revolution of politics' has received little attention, despite its importance. This study fills a gap in the history of political thought, and attempts to return to a conception of politics as an activity worth committing ourselves to.

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    "...an important contribution to the study of politics in the early-modern era." William V. Hudon, 16th Century Journal

    "Hereby hangs a tale of ideological innovation and conceptual change told with considerable erudition and detailed scholarship by Maurizio Viroli....[T]here is no doubt that 'politics' in early modern Italy has received a first-rate chronicle. The memory it revives may yet assist the restoration of civil philosophy in our time." James Farr, American Political Science Review

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