Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy
Machiavelli to Tocqueville. Edited by Steven Frankel and Martin D. Yaffe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7874203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Beiner (0000-0002-7955-7658, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 715-717 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/csab050 |
| OpenAlex | W3201602335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Thoughts on Machiavelli, Leo Strauss wrote: “We no longer understand that in spite of great disagreements among [Machiavelli and the whole series of political thinkers who succeeded him], they were united by the fact that they all fought one and the same power—the kingdom of darkness, as Hobbes called it; that fight was more important to them than any merely political issue.” That is, what eventually came to be called “the Enlightenment project” was inscribed in the tradition of modern political philosophy from its very inception. Most, though not all, of the contributors to this helpful and illuminating collection are faithful to Strauss’s thesis of the basic unity of the modern tradition. “Civil religion” is a convenient rubric under which to treat this common project of the moderns because it nicely encapsulates the shared determination to subordinate religion to political imperatives in regard to state authority, citizenship, and...
Citizenship · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religious studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |