John P Mccormick
Biographic Data
| ID | 467112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Mccormick |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormick |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMICK J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7305-186X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Dramaturgy for the puppet theatre yesterday and today
Until the twentieth century notions of dramaturgy were closely bound up with the Poetics of Aristotle, often leaving out of account less ‘regular’ forms from Shakespeare to the melodrama. From the 17th to the 19th century live actors and puppets could be virtually interchangeable, performing the same or similar repertoires. Adaptation of plays from the actors’ theatre was the general rule. Comparatively few authors wrote directly for the puppet s…
James Hankins, Virtue Politics
Aristocratic Insolenzia and the Role of Senates in Machiavelli's Mixed Republic
This essay offers an alternative to influential interpretations of elites, peoples, and senates in Niccolò Machiavelli's theory of mixed republics. It analyzes in greater depth both Machiavelli's ascription of the morally objectionable and politically dangerous trait of insolenzia to the nobles as a social class; and his justifications for the establishment of senates as institutions that partially remedy the problem of aristocratic insolence—jus…
Platonic Theocracy, Liberalism, and Authoritarianism in Leo Strauss'sPhilosophy and Law
Leo Strauss, inPhilosophy and Law(1935), offers Platonic theocracy as a more just and stable political alternative to both liberalism and authoritarianism. Rather than merely a scholastic investigation of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, I read the book as a programmatic endorsement of a morally perfectionist political order: a divinely legitimated and rationally justified "true" or "beautiful" state. Since human beings require political c…
Project-based learning groups of friends and acquaintances
This school-based study explored the role of collective and proxy efficacy beliefs in the performances of project-based learning teams comprising friends and acquaintances. Participants were 162 male students in Grade 8 who attended a Catholic high school, located in Sydney, Australia. Students were organized into 20 acquaintance groups and 21 friendship groups. Each group comprised 4 students who were completing project-based learning assignment…
Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence. Yves Winter. Cambridge
Florentine Political Writings - From Petrarch to Machiavelli
On Josiah Ober’s Demopolis
Reading Machiavelli
Reading Machiavelli
To what extent was Machiavelli a “Machiavellian”? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? This book answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli's three major political works— The Prince , Discourses , and Florentine Histories —and demonstrates that a radic…
Introduction to Global Studies
Reading Machiavelli
Pocock, Machiavelli and Political Contingency in Foreign Affairs
In this essay, inspired by J.G.A. Pocock's appropriation of Machiavelli's theory of political contingency, and building upon my previous engagements with Pocock's ‘republican existentialism’, I focus on the role played by ‘accidents’ in Machiavelli's analysis of war and foreign affairs within The Prince and the Discourses. In so doing, I consider the following issues: the ways through which a potential imperial hegemon might consolidate control o…
Faulty Foundings and Failed Reformers in Machiavelli'sFlorentine Histories
T his article argues against prevailing scholarly trends that theFlorentine Historiescontinues to delineate the ways through which Niccolò Machiavelli, inThe Princeand theDiscourses, advised potential founders or reformers to exploit, for their own benefit and that of their patria, the inevitable social conflicts between elites and the people that arise in all polities. Machiavelli demonstrates that, in particular, Giano della Bella and Michele d…
Heike Klüver, Lobbying in the European Union
Nadia Urbinati’s Polemical Defence of Representative Democracy
Response to Destri
Teaching in Vain
This chapter traces Carl Schmitt’s attempt, in his 1932 book The Concept of the Political, to quell the near civil war circumstances of the late Weimar Republic and to reinvigorate the sovereignty of the German state through a reappropriation of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy. The chapter then examines Schmitt’s reconsideration of the Hobbesian state, and his own recent reformulation of it, in light of the rise of the “Third Reich,” with pa…
Voting on Europe
As Britain prepares for a possible referendum on continued membership of the European Union, it is essential that more careful thought is paid to the dynamics of referendums. Polling data reveal the existence of a substantial knowledge deficit in the UK and other parts of the EU: large numbers of voters simply do not understand the EU. There is also reason to question the conventional view that voters can correct for such a deficit by using cues …
The Enduring Ambiguity of Machiavellian Virtue
Machiavelli's The Prince is famous for recommending that aspiring princes rely as much as possible on their own virtue rather than on fortune in the acquisition, maintenance and expansion of their states. Through an analysis of the examples of Cesare Borgia, Agathocles the Sicilian and Liverotto of Fermo in The Prince, this article elaborates the extent to which Machiavelli thought that resort to crime was a necessary aspect of virtue and the exp…
Machiavelli's The Prince at 500
Machiavelli’s The Prince at 500: The Fate of Politics in the Modern World John P. McCormick (bio) Niccolò Machiavelli would have undoubtedly secured enduring fame for any one of the roles he played during his life in and out of Renaissance Florence: historian, diplomat, military strategist, civil servant, poet, playwright. However, it was in his capacity as a political thinker that Machiavelli earned eternal renown. His political writings sparked…
Weimar Thought
Cultural citizenship, political belonging, and the European Union
Como muchos conceptos en las ciencias sociales, la noción de ciudadanía está sujeta a diferentes interpretaciones basadas en los intereses y preferencias particulares de aquellos que participan en discursos públicos sobre su significado. A menudo se descarta la noción de ciudadanía de la Unión Europea como insustancial. Distintos autores constatan que los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea continuan teniendo diferentes leyes sobre la ciudadanía…
Weimar Thought
Democracia maquiaveliana
Este ensaio demonstra que o pensamento político de Maquiavel lida com as deficiências de dois polos opostos da teoria democrática contemporânea. Assim como fazem as abordagens formais ou minimalistas, ele especifica mecanismos eleitorais para o controle das elites; e de modo similar às abordagens da cultura substantiva ou cívica, encoraja modos mais diretos e robustos de participação popular. Com base nisso, seleciono aspectos dos Discursos de Ma…
Machiavellian Democracy
This essay demonstrates that Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought addresses the deficiencies of two opposite poles of contemporary democratic theory: As do formal or minimalist approaches, he specifies electoral mechanisms for elite control; and similar to substantive or civic culture approaches, he encourages more direct and robust modes of popular participation. On these grounds, I cull from Machiavelli's Discourses a theory of democracy in …
Machiavelli Against Republicanism
Scholars loosely affiliated with the “Cambridge School” (e.g., Pocock, Skinner, Viroli, and Pettit) accentuate rule of law, common good, class equilibrium, and non-domination in Machiavelli's political thought and republicanism generally but underestimate the Florentine's preference for class conflict and ignore his insistence on elite accountability. The author argues that they obscure the extent to which Machiavelli is an anti-elitist critic of…
Contain the Wealthy and Patrol the Magistrates
Modern republics neglect to establish formal institutions that prevent wealthy citizens from exerting excessive political influence and they abandon extra-electoral techniques traditionally employed to keep office-holders accountable. Inspired by Guicciardini's and Machiavelli's reflections on the Roman, Venetian, and Florentine constitutions, this article highlights three forgotten practices that facilitate popular control ofbotheconomic and pol…
Fear, Technology, and the State
It is striking that one of the most consequential representatives of [the] abstract scientific orientation of the seventeenth century [Thomas Hobbes] became so personalistic. This is because as a juristic thinker he wanted to grasp the reality of societal life just as much as he, as a philosopher and a natural scientist, wanted to grasp the reality of nature.... [J]uristic thought in those days had not yet become so overpowered by the natural sci…
Addressing the Political Exception
First, I will demonstrate that Machiavelli's conception of political phenomena is richer and more varied and conforms to an adequate understanding of political reality more closely than later, more "systematic," or "regular," conceptions often associated with the Enlightenment. Second, I find in Machiavelli strong grounds for resisting authoritarian claims that the variegated and unpredictable nature of political phenomena must be managed with un…
Political Theory and Political Theology
Derrida on Law; or, Poststructuralism gets Serious
Subdue the Senate
This article analyzes Machiavelli’s accounts of the historical figures Agathocles, Clearchus, Appius and Pacuvius to (1) accentuate the Florentine’s distinction between tyranny and civic leadership, (2) identify the proper place of elite punishment and popular empowerment in his conception of democratic politics, and (3) criticize contemporary Straussian and “radical” interpreters of Machiavelli for profoundly underestimating the roles that popul…
Machiavelli's Political Trials and “The Free Way of Life
This essay examines the political trials through which, according to Machiavelli's Discourses, republics should punish magistrates and prominent citizens who threaten or violate popular liberty. Unlike modern constitutions, which assign indictments and appeals to small numbers of government officials, Machiavelli's neo-Roman model encourages individual citizens to accuse corrupt or usurping elites and promotes the entire citizenry as political ju…
The roles of perceived task interdependence and group members' interdependence in the development of collective efficacy in university student group contexts
Background. Although the relationship between collective efficacy and group performance has been frequently investigated, a few studies have investigated the development of collective efficacy.Aim. This paper proposes some determinants of collective efficacy in small university groups. Group level hypotheses and research questions relating collective efficacy to collective cognition activities, task interdependence, self-efficacy for group work, …
Rousseau’s Rome and the Repudiation of Populist Republicanism
The chapters of Rousseau’s Social Contract devoted to republican Rome prescribe institutions that obstruct popular efforts at diminishing the excessive power and influence of wealthy citizens and political magistrates. I argue that Rousseau reconstructs ancient Rome’s constitution in direct opposition to the more populist and anti‐elitist model of the Roman Republic championed by Machiavelli in the Discourses: Rousseau eschews the establishment o…
People's Theatre
Post-Enlightenment sources of political authority
This essay reevaluates the Weimar writings of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, specifically, their intellectual efforts to replace the political authority of Kantian liberalism with, respectively, a ‘political theology’ and ‘Biblical atheism’ derived from the thought of early-modern state theorists like Hobbes and Spinoza. Schmitt and Strauss each insisted that post-Kantian Enlightenment rationality was unraveling into a way of thinking that violent…
Faulty Foundings and Failed Reformers in Machiavelli'sFlorentine Histories
T his article argues against prevailing scholarly trends that theFlorentine Historiescontinues to delineate the ways through which Niccolò Machiavelli, inThe Princeand theDiscourses, advised potential founders or reformers to exploit, for their own benefit and that of their patria, the inevitable social conflicts between elites and the people that arise in all polities. Machiavelli demonstrates that, in particular, Giano della Bella and Michele d…
Voting on Europe
As Britain prepares for a possible referendum on continued membership of the European Union, it is essential that more careful thought is paid to the dynamics of referendums. Polling data reveal the existence of a substantial knowledge deficit in the UK and other parts of the EU: large numbers of voters simply do not understand the EU. There is also reason to question the conventional view that voters can correct for such a deficit by using cues …
Irrational Choice and Mortal Combat as Political Destiny
The reissue of Carl Schmitt's most important works, Political Theology and The Concept of the Political, offers the opportunity for reflection on Schmitt's pervasive influence over myriad fields of political and legal studies and for re-evaluation of the basic tenets of his thought. In these works, the conservative Weimar jurist unveiled his theory of ”the exception,“ put forth his ”friend/enemy“ thesis of politics, and insisted that Enlightenmen…
Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France
This is the only book to provide an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. Whereas other studies offer a traditional approach to the theatres of high culture, John McCormick takes the role of impartial historian, uncovering the popular theatres of the boulevards, suburbs and fairgrounds. He focuses on the social and economic …
Examination-induced distress in a public examination at the completion of secondary schooling
Background. The context for this study was the Higher School Certificate examination in New South Wales, Australia.Aims. The main research aim was to investigate the association between the Higher School Certificate, the reported distress and anxiety levels of the adolescent students who prepare for and sit for the examination, and various other internal and environmental variables.Sample. The random sample consisted of 445 students in their last…
Platonic Theocracy, Liberalism, and Authoritarianism in Leo Strauss'sPhilosophy and Law
Leo Strauss, inPhilosophy and Law(1935), offers Platonic theocracy as a more just and stable political alternative to both liberalism and authoritarianism. Rather than merely a scholastic investigation of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, I read the book as a programmatic endorsement of a morally perfectionist political order: a divinely legitimated and rationally justified "true" or "beautiful" state. Since human beings require political c…
Pocock, Machiavelli and Political Contingency in Foreign Affairs
In this essay, inspired by J.G.A. Pocock's appropriation of Machiavelli's theory of political contingency, and building upon my previous engagements with Pocock's ‘republican existentialism’, I focus on the role played by ‘accidents’ in Machiavelli's analysis of war and foreign affairs within The Prince and the Discourses. In so doing, I consider the following issues: the ways through which a potential imperial hegemon might consolidate control o…
Machiavelli and the Gracchi
In this article, I highlight a rhetorical strategy in Machiavelli's Discourses through which: (1) the Florentine endorses, despite appearances to the contrary, the redistributive agenda of the Brothers Gracchi, Roman tribunes frequently blamed for causing the collapse of the Republic; and (2) subtly intimates the violent means that other prospective reformers of republics must employ to succeed where the Gracchi had failed. Machiavelli invokes ‘p…
Justice, Interpretation, and Violence
I thank Ben Corson for his response to my essay on Force of Law.2 His comments are gentle, serious, constructive, and certainly exhibit greater expertise in matters-Derrida than I possess. Much more than merely supplemental, Corson's criticisms raise issues that go to the heart of Derrida's essay and my own reading of it. I take the following to be Corson's main point: I read Denrida to be offering mystical as an eventual or ultimate alternative …
Three Ways of Thinking "Critically" about the Law
Radical criticisms of liberalism's method of legal adjudication focus on its excessive formalism, its tendency to foster indeterminacy, and its naive maintenance of the separation of political from legal concerns. I examine these arguments as they appear in the work of Carl Schmitt, on the Right, and the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement, on the Left. Jürgen Habermas has recently attempted to refute the positions of these most scalding twenti…
What’s Wrong with Liberalism? A Radical Critique of Liberal Political Philosophy
Transcending Weber's Categories of Modernity? The Early Lukacs and Schmitt on the Rationalization Thesis
Versions of censorship
People's Theatre
George Santayana and Ezra Pound
People's Theatre
Santayana
Persons and Places
A Babylonian in Zion
George Santayana
Addressing the Political Exception
First, I will demonstrate that Machiavelli's conception of political phenomena is richer and more varied and conforms to an adequate understanding of political reality more closely than later, more "systematic," or "regular," conceptions often associated with the Enlightenment. Second, I find in Machiavelli strong grounds for resisting authoritarian claims that the variegated and unpredictable nature of political phenomena must be managed with un…
Comparative Politics in Transition
COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN TRANSITION combines a thematic framework with a country by country approach to provide a true introduction to Comparative Politics, one that assumes very little prior knowledge on the part of students. The author uses an arenas classification to organize and frame the systematic comparative analysis, rather than the three worlds framework. The arenas classification reflects the contemporary political, economic, and social …
Fear, Technology, and the State
It is striking that one of the most consequential representatives of [the] abstract scientific orientation of the seventeenth century [Thomas Hobbes] became so personalistic. This is because as a juristic thinker he wanted to grasp the reality of societal life just as much as he, as a philosopher and a natural scientist, wanted to grasp the reality of nature.... [J]uristic thought in those days had not yet become so overpowered by the natural sci…
A Post-Cold War Approach
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Dangers of mythologizing technology and politics
L'A. etudie les elements nietzscheens de la critique de la technologie developpee par C. Schmitt et tire les consequences de la strategie etablie par Schmitt pour resoudre l'emprise de la technologie sur le XX e siecle: un conflit mythique contre l'Union sovietique. La figure de l'Antechrist illustre le discours anti-chretien qui sous-tend le probleme de la mythologisation de la technologie et de la politique
The Dilemmas of Dictatorship
The first line of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is perhaps the most famous sentence—certainly one of the most infamous—in German political theory: “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” [ Souverän ist, wer über den Ausnahmezustand entscheidet ]. And yet the full significance of this famous sentence is often underestimated. I intend to focus upon 1) its significance in the overall trajectory of Schmitt's Weimar work, and 2) its potenti…
Acid earth
Introduction * Part 1 The Dimensions of Acidification: Acid Emissions * Acid Damage * Acid Controls * Acid Politics * Part 2 National and Regional Experiences: Britain * The EU * Russia and Eastern Europe * North America * The Newly Industrializing Countries.* Conclusions * Notes * Index
Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism
This is the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal, and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century's most brilliant critic of liberalism. It offers an assessment of this most sophisticated of fascist theorists without attempting either to apologise for or demonise him. Schmitt's Weimar writings confront the role of technology as it finds expression through the principles and practices of liberalism. Cont…
Contemporary German Legal Philosophy
Herget (international law, U. of Houston) explains to American legal scholars and students the main points of the characteristic legal philosophy that has developed in the German-speaking world since World War II. After a historical introduction and overview, he discusses critical rationalism, disco
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas. Stephen K. White
Habermas' Discourse Theory of Law
Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism
Examination-induced distress in a public examination at the completion of secondary schooling
Background. The context for this study was the Higher School Certificate examination in New South Wales, Australia.Aims. The main research aim was to investigate the association between the Higher School Certificate, the reported distress and anxiety levels of the adolescent students who prepare for and sit for the examination, and various other internal and environmental variables.Sample. The random sample consisted of 445 students in their last…
The Global Environmental Movement (Second Edition)
The bullfight gentrified
Awards
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What’s Wrong with Liberalism? A Radical Critique of Liberal Political Philosophy
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