Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson

The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, considering how democracy has become the only legitimate and publicly defensible regime, while also considering how modern democracy attempts to solve what Leo Strauss called the "theologico-political problem."

Author: L. Ward
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/04/2014
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137475046

About the Author
Dr. Lee Ward is Alpha Sigma Nu, Associate Professor of Political Science at Campion College at the University of Regina, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge, 2004), John Locke and Modern Life (Cambridge, 2010), and co-editor with Ann Ward of the Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (Ashgate, 2009) and Natural Right and Political Philosophy (Notre Dame, 2013).