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

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  1. Lee Ward
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Part of the book series: Recovering Political Philosophy (REPOPH)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: A Pre-History of Democracy

    • Lee Ward
    Pages 1-33

  3. Spinoza and Democracy as the Best Regime

    • Lee Ward
    Pages 35-81

  4. Rousseau and Democratic Civil Religion

    • Lee Ward
    Pages 83-131

  5. Thomas Jefferson: Bringing Democracy Down from the Heavens

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    Pages 133-186

  6. Conclusion

    • Lee Ward
    Pages 187-191

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 193-228
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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."

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).

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