From Politics to Reason of State : The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250 1600 - No Information Available

From Politics to Reason of State

The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250 1600

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Hardcover | 9 November 1992

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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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