Zera Fink
Zera Silver Fink (1902-1979) was an American literary scholar and professor known for his studies on English Renaissance literature and humanism.[1] In the 1940s in his book The Classical Republicans he developed the concept of classical republicanism arguing that Puritan political thought drew inspiration from classical Greece[2] and Rome[3] transmitted through Italian Renaissance theories of mixed government and the stability of the Venetian Republic.[2]
Fink argued that Polybius and Niccolò Machiavelli, the latter in his Discourses on Livy, had a great influence on seventeenth-century "classical republicans" such as James Harrington. The "classical republicans", in turn, influenced eighteenth-century proponents of the Commonwealth.[4][5][6]
Fink influenced both the political theorist Hannah Arendt[6] as well as J. G. A. Pocock, the historian and author of The Machiavellian Moment.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Fink, Zera Silver, 1902-1979".
- 1 2 Pocock 1965, p. 551.
- ↑ Fink 1945, p. 1.
- ↑ Fink 1942.
- ↑ Fink 1945, pp. 10–16 and 53.
- 1 2 Arendt 1963, pp. 316 and 321.
- ↑ Pocock 1965.
Bibliography
[edit]Works
[edit]- Fink, Zera Silver (September 1942). "The Theory of the Mixed State and the Development of Milton's Political Thought". PMLA. 57 (3): 705–736.
- Fink, Zera Silver (1945). The Classical Republicans: An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth Century England (1962 ed.). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
Sources
[edit]- Arendt, Hannah (1963). On Revolution. New York, NY: Viking Press.
- Pocock, J. G. A. (October 1965). "Machiavelli, Harrington and English Political Ideologies in the Eighteenth Century". The William and Mary Quarterly. 22 (4). Institute of Early American History and Culture: 549–583. doi:10.2307/1922910. JSTOR 1922910.
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