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From Politics to Reason of State - The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600 (Hardcover, New)
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From Politics to Reason of State - The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ideas in Context
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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. Viroli's 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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