Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Machiavelli’s Modernity and the Christian Tradition
2. Machiavelli’s Modern Turn
3. Descartes’s Critique of Scholastic Teleology
4. Spinoza and Toleration
5. From Natural Law to Natural Rights in John Locke
6. Leibniz: Modern or Premodern Philosopher?
7. Modern Turns in Mathematics and Physics
8. Hume contra Humean Practical Reason
9. Happiness in Rousseau and Kant
10. Kant, Autonomy, and Modernity
11. Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty
12. The Failure of the Modern Project
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index