Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic / Paul A. Rah...
Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic / Paul A. Rah...
Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic / Paul A. Rahe.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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2008.
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N320.09224/ 2
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English
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xii, 442 p. ; 25 cm.
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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 -- Thoma...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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England
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2008.
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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."--BOOK JA...
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Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic / Paul A. Rahe.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N320.09224/ 2
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9780521883900 (hardback)
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320.092241
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