Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson (Recovering Political Philosophy)

by Lee Ward (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $154.17

  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.