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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England

Sullivan, Vickie B.

2004,2009

Overview

Certain English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whom scholars often associate with classical republicanism, were not, in fact, hostile to liberalism. Indeed, these thinkers contributed to a synthesis of liberalism and modern republicanism. As this book argues, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Henry Neville, Algernon Sidney, and John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the co-authors of a series of editorials entitled Cato's Letters, provide a synthesis that responds to the demands of both republicans and liberals by offering a politically engaged citizenry as well as the protection of individual rights. The book also reinterprets the writings of Machiavelli and Hobbes to show that each contributed in a fundamental way to the formation of this liberal republicanism.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 1469-1527 / 1588-1679 / 17th century / 18th century / Great Britain / History / Hobbes, Thomas / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 / Liberalism / Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century / Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Machiavelli, Niccolo / Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 / Philosophy / Political science / Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century / Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Political science -- Philosophy / Republicanism / Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century / Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• ISBN: 9780521833615, 9780521034852, 0521833612, 052103485X