Format:
Online-Ressource (360 p)
ISBN:
9789004191280
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History v.193
Content:
Starting from Justus Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica (1605), this book offers a collection of essays dealing with the disputed Macchiavellian, Tacitean or Neostoic character of Lipsius's political thought, and its impact on the dynamics of political discourse in Early Modern Europe
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Introduction; Introduction: Towards a More Balanced View of Justus Lipsius's Political Writings and Their Influence; Part I General Tendencies; Exempla, Prudence and Casuistry in Renaissance Political Discourse; History and Exemplarity in the Work of Lipsius; Stoicism in Political Humanism and Natural Law; Part II Rhetorics, History and Exemplarity; Monita et exempla politica as Example of a Genre; Rhetoric and Exemplarity in Justus Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica; Justus Lipsius and the Challenge of Historical Exemplarity
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Justus Lipsius and the Cento FormPart III Virtues and Politics; Fate and Rule, Destiny and Dynasty: Lipsius's Final Views on Superstition, Fate and Divination in the Monita et exempla politica (1605); The Clementia Lipsiana: Political Analysis, Autobiography and Panegyric; Prudence in Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica: Stoic Virtue, Aristotelian Virtue or not a Virtue at All?; Secret Compensation: A Friendly and Lawful Alternative to Lipsius's Political Thought; Part IV Lipsius's Heritage
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Carolus Scribani and the Lipsian Legacy. The Politico-Christianus and Lipsius's Image of the Good PrinceA Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Absolutism, Natural Law and the Decline of Reason of State in France 1660-1760; Bibliography; Index Nominum
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004191839
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004191280
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe (Un)masking the Realities of Power : Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe
Language:
English
Keywords:
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