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- Title
Bee Yun, Wege zu Machiavelli. Die Rückkehr des Politischen im Spätmittelalter. (Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, Bd. 91.) Köln, Böhlau 2021.
- Authors
Weber, Wolfgang E. J.
- Abstract
The review discusses the book "Wege zu Machiavelli" by Bee Yun, which deals with the return of politics in the late Middle Ages. The dissertation argues that the understanding of politics as an independent field of thought and action did not only emerge with Machiavelli, but was already present in the late Middle Ages. The author supports his thesis with ancient Greek concepts and argues that Christian fundamentalism suffocated this pragmatic understanding of politics. It was only in the 14th century that pragmatism prevailed again, as the perception of contingency and chaos in this world required a pragmatic approach. Machiavelli ultimately combined late medieval pragmatism with his concept of political self-assertion. However, the review criticizes the thin sources of intellectual history and questions the existence of a "necessitarian" phase of Christian fundamentalism.
- Subjects
WEGE zu Machiavelli: Die Ruckkehr des Politischen im Spatmittelalter (Book); BEE Yun; PROTESTANT fundamentalism; MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo, 1469-1527; HISTORICAL source material; MIDDLE Ages; ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology); NONFICTION; PRAGMATISM; FOURTEENTH century
- Publication
Historische Zeitschrift, 2022, Vol 315, Issue 1, p220
- ISSN
0018-2613
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1515/hzhz-2022-1318