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Political Science General

The Circle of Rights Expands

Modern Political Thought after the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)

by (author) Arthur P. Monahan

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2007
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773532083
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578357
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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