![]() ![]() This may seem somewhat obvious or even redundant, but it’s a point worth mentioning as it’s Pocock’s prevailing thesis in The Machiavelli Moment : ideas of republicanism spread across populations, centuries, and continents. Pocock, it seems, is representative of many intellectual historians, in that ideas-and especially the application of ideas-is of primary interest. He remarks that “ Il Principe is not a work of ideology… It is rather an analytic study of innovation and its consequences but within that character, it proceeds straight to the analysis of the ultimate problem raised by both innovation and the decay of citizenship” (Pocock, 156). This begins early in this second section when he discusses Machiavelli’s Il Principe. Though his writing is never boring, the energy tends to pick up whenever he begins to explore ideas rather than timelines. ![]() In the second third of Pocock’s The Machiavelli Moment, it can be argued that a different form of urgency can be felt between when Pocock is discussing nuts and bolts history and when he discusses political history and ideas. ![]()
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