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Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

[1] 书籍信息

James Hankins, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, Harvard University Press, January 2023.

[2] 作者简介

James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, winner of the Marraro Prize and a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, and Plato in the Italian Renaissance; and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is also a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.

[3] 内容简介

Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. “Men, not walls, make a city,” as Thucydides so memorably said. They would rebuild their city, and their civilization, by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful statecraft.

A dazzlingly ambitious reappraisal of Renaissance political thought by one of our generation’s foremost intellectual historians, Virtue Politics challenges the traditional narrative that looks to the Renaissance as the seedbed of modern republicanism and sees Machiavelli as its exemplary thinker. James Hankins reveals that what most concerned the humanists was not reforming laws or institutions so much as shaping citizens. If character mattered more than constitutions, it would have to be nurtured through a new program of education they called the studia humanitatis: the humanities.

We owe liberal arts education and much else besides to the bold experiment of these passionate and principled thinkers. The questions they asked—Should a good man serve a corrupt regime? What virtues are necessary in a leader? What is the source of political legitimacy? Is wealth concentration detrimental to social cohesion? Should citizens be expected to fight for their country?—would have a profound impact on later debates about good government and seem as vital today as they did then.

[4] 书籍目录

Preface

1. A Civilization in Crisis

2. Virtue Politics

3. What Was a Republic in the Renaissance?

4. Taming the Tyrant

5. The Triumph of Virtue: Petrarch’s Political Thought

6. Should a Good Man Participate in a Corrupt Government? Petrarch on the Solitary Life

7. Boccaccio on the Perils of Wealth and Status

8. Leonardo Bruni and the Virtuous Hegemon

9. War and Military Service in the Virtuous

10. A Mirror for Statesmen: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People

11. Biondo Flavio: What Made the Romans Great

12. Cyriac of Ancona on Democracy and Empire

13. Leon Battista Alberti on Corrupt Princes and Virtuous Oligarchs

14. George of Trebizond on Cosmopolitanism and Liberty

15. Francesco Filelfo and the Spartan Republic

16. Greek Constitutional Theory in the Quattrocento

17. Francesco Patrizi and Humanist Absolutism

18. Machiavelli: Reviving the Military Republic

19. Machiavelli: From Virtue to Virtù

20. Two Cures for Hyperpartisanship: Bruni versus Machiavelli

21. Conclusion: Ex Oriente Lux

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index of Manuscripts and Archival Documents

General Index

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