Herold Aaron L. The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment Theology 9780812253009

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Автор: Herold Aaron L.
Название: The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment Theology
ISBN: 9780812253009
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Социальная и политическая философия

Политическая система: демократия

ISBN-10: 0812253000
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 06.08.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 230 x 152 x 28
Ключевые слова: Political structures: democracy,Social & political philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Political,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Подзаголовок: Spinoza, tocqueville, and enlightenment theology
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In The Democratic Soul, Aaron L. Herold argues that liberal democracys current crisis—of extreme polarization, rising populism, and disillusionment with political institutions—must be understood as the culmination of a deeper dissatisfaction with the liberal Enlightenment. Major elements of both the Left and the Right now reject the Enlightenments emphasis on rights as theoretically unfounded and morally undesirable and have sought to recover a contrasting politics of obligation. But this has re-opened questions about the relationship between politics and religion long thought settled.
To address our situation, Herold examines the political thought of Spinoza and Tocqueville, two authors united in support of liberal democracy but with differing assessments of the Enlightenment. Through an original reading of Spinozas Theologico-Political Treatise, Herold uncovers the theological foundation of liberal democracy: a comprehensive moral teaching rehabilitating human self-interest, denigrating devotion as a relic of superstition, and cultivating a pride in living, acting, and thinking for oneself. In his political vision, Spinoza articulates our highest hopes for liberalism, for he is confident such an outlook will produce both intellectual flourishing and a paradoxical recovery of community.
But Spinozas project contains tensions which continue to trouble democracy today. As Herold shows via a new interpretation of Tocquevilles Democracy in America, the dissatisfactions now destabilizing democracy can be traced to the Enlightenments failure to find a place for religious longings whose existence it largely denied. In particular, Tocqueville described a natural human desire for a kind of happiness found, at least partly, in self-sacrifice. Because modernity weakens religion precisely as it makes democracy stronger than liberalism, it permits this desire to find new and dangerous outlets. Tocqueville thus sought to design a new political science which could rectify this problem and which therefore remains indispensable today in recovering the moderation lacking in contemporary politics.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Spinoza's Liberal Theology
Chapter 2. Spinoza's Democratic Republicanism
Chapter 3. Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the Enlightenment Project
Chapter 4. Tocqueville's Political Sc

The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment Theology, Herold Aaron L.