Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-century Democracy

by Mark Cladis (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $54.34

  Reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. This title argues that the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau was instrumental in the evolution of modernity. In Rousseau, it pinpoints the origins of contemporary notions of the public and private and their relationship to religion.