Nature's God

The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

Matthew Stewart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

580 Seiten

2017
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35129-3 (ISBN)

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Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?

America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s revolutionaries drew their inspiration. In the writings of Spinoza, Lucretius, and other great philosophers, Stewart recovers the true meanings of “Nature’s God,” “the pursuit of happiness,” and the radical political theory with which the American experiment in self-government began.

Matthew Stewart is an independent philosopher and historian who has written extensively about the philosophical origins of the American republic. His work has appeared in?The Atlantic,?The?Washington Post,?The Wall Street Journal, and more. He is currently based in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.7.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	583 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-393-35129-7 / 0393351297
ISBN-13	978-0-393-35129-3 / 9780393351293
Zustand	Neuware