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Lineages of European Political Thought - Explorations Along the Medieval/modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (Paperback)
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Lineages of European Political Thought - Explorations Along the Medieval/modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (Paperback)
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This book examines some of the salient historiographical and
conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the
nature of the medieval contribution to modern Western political
ideas. On the one hand, scholars who subscribe to the 'Baron
thesis' concerning civic humanism have asserted that the break
between medieval and modern modes of political thinking formed an
unbridgeable chasm associated with the development of an entirely
new framework at the dawn of the Florentine Renaissance. Others
have challenged this hypothesis, replacing it with another extreme:
an unbroken continuity in the intellectual terrain between the
twelfth and the seventeenth centuries (or later). The present book
seeks to qualify both of these positions. Cary J. Nederman argues
for a more nuanced historiography of intellectual continuity and
change that depends upon analyzing a host of contextual as well as
philosophical factors to account for the emergence of the European
tradition of political theory in the medieval and early modern
periods. He finds that categories such as 'medieval' and 'modern'
can and should be usefully deployed, yet always with the
understanding that they are provisional and potentially fluid. The
book opens with an introduction that lays out the main issues and
sources of the debate, followed by five sets of interrelated
chapters. The first section critically assesses some of the leading
scholars who have contributed to the current understanding of the
relationship between medieval and modern ideas. The central part of
the book includes three sections that address salient themes that
illuminate and illustrate continuity and change: Dissent and Power,
Empire and Republic, and Political Economy. The volume closes with
a few examples of the ways in which medieval political doctrines
were absorbed into and transformed during the modern period up to
the nineteenth century.
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