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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Thomas Hobbes; Benedictus de Spinoza; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Thomas Hobbes; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Benedictus de Spinoza |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Julie E Cooper |
ISBN: | 9780226081298 022608129X |
OCLC Number: | 875204127 |
Description: | x, 240 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Toward a revised history of modesty and humility -- Modesty: Hobbes on how mere mortals can create a mortal god -- Humility: Spinoza on the joys of finitude -- Self-love: Rousseau on the allure, and the elusiveness of divine self-sufficiency -- Conclusion: a modest tale about theoretical modesty. |
Responsibility: | Julie E. Cooper. |
Abstract:
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place. This title overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics.
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"Julie E. Cooper has undertaken an impressive survey of the historical and contemporary literatures to elucidate and explain the limitations posed by the mistaken presumption that self-aggrandizement is a corollary of secularization. An erudite and truly excellent study, Secular Powers is positioned to make an extremely important contribution to contemporary arguments about the fortunes and possibly the future of secularism in political life." (Samantha L. Frost, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)" Read more...
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