What is"the Last Act of the Civic Renaissance"?—On the Relationship of Pocock's Civil Republicanism and American Political Order
The article discusses Pocock's view of the American Revolution in The Machiavellian Moment and its relationship to civic republicanism.The article identifies the reasons why Pocock refers to the American Revolution as"the last act of the civic Renaissance";and,by comparing Po-cock's and Gordon Wood's interpretations of the American Revolution,the article presents the ways in which republicanism realizes as a set of forms of order and how this order relates to the United States.On this basis,the article reflects on the"context"of Pocock's writing,suggesting that an ex-istential understanding of the concept of"republicanism"may be the conditions to understand Pocock's history of ideas and his judgements of real political problems.
civil republicanismJ.G.A.PocockAmerican revolutionAmerican political order
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