The Circle of Rights Expands
Modern Political Thought after the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)
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.