The Circle of Rights Expands
Modern Political Thought after the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2007
- Subjects
- History & Theory, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578357
- Publish Date
- Mar 2007
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Monahan's reading of individual philosophers, including the work of Spinoza, sixteenth-century advocates of religious toleration, and the radical Diggers and Levellers of England in the mid- seventeenth century, constitutes a convincing overview of the political theory of the period.
About the author
Arthur P. Monahan (1930-2006) was professor emeritus, philosophy, Saint Mary's University, and the author of From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300-1600 and Consent, Coercion, and Limit: The Medieval Origins of Parliamentary Democracy.