Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam)

The Power of Necessity

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between political pragmatism and moral-religious principle, bridging the persistent gap between theory and practice in political thought.

Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513149
• ISBN-10: 1316513149
• Artikelnr.: 64766477

Autorenporträt

Lisa Kattenberg is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2019 and 2022, she was Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation, from which she developed this book, was awarded the Keetje Hodshon Award for the best doctoral thesis in history completed at a Dutch university during the past five years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published broadly in Spanish, English and Dutch.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: politics between principle and pragmatism
2. Necessity and counter-reformation reason of state
3. 'The inexhaustible ocean of politics': Tacitus and the political counsel of history
4. Virgilio Malvezzi and the mosaics of morality and necessity
5. Experience, conscience and necessity: Spanish debates about peace or truce in the Netherlands
Conclusion.