Cladis, Mark S

Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st Century Democracy - New York Columbia University Press 2007 - 298p

Religion, Democracy, and Modernity: The Case for Progressive Spiritual Democracy
From the Garden to the City: The Tragic Passage
Nature`s Garden .....35
Revisiting the Garden`s Solitaires .........44
From the Garden to the Blessed Country : The Precarious Passage ..........52
The Rush to Slavery ...........64
The City : Life in the Ousted Conditions ............79
Overcoming moral Evil : Rousseau at the Crossroads ........100
2. Paths to Redemption
Reforming the City : The Extreme public Path .......125
Evading the City : The private path ........154
The Mountain Village : The Path to Family , work , community and Love ..........172
Reconciling Citizen and Solitaire: Religious Dimensions of the Middle Way ........187
Residual Conflict : Democracy and Ineluctable Friction ...........214


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