Amy Gais

The Coerced Conscience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Offers new perspective on the politics of conscience through the eyes of some of its most influential advocates and critics in Western history, John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and Pierre Bayle. This revisionist account of liberty of conscience speaks to scholars who work across the social sciences and humanities"--

Produktdetails

• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• ISBN-13: 9781009372008
• ISBN-10: 1009372009
• Artikelnr.: 68358992

Autorenporträt

Amy Gais is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a political theorist specializing in freedom, specifically the question of how individuals resist oppression. She was the recipient of the Robert C. Wood Prize and an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices finalist. Her work has been published by Political Theory, Review of Politics, and History of European Ideas, as well as public-facing outlets, such as Inside Higher Ed.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A New Kind of Politics? 2. John Milton and Expressive Conscience
3. Thomas Hobbes and Instilled Conscience
4. Baruch Spinoza and Conscientious Speech
5. Pierre Bayle and Tormented Conscience
6. The Politics of Conscience.