Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Michael Allen Gillespie is an American philosopher and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University. His areas of interest are political philosophy, continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and the origins of modernity. He has published on medieval theology, Petrarch, humanism, Erasmus, Luther, Erasmus, Montaigne, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, American political thought, the relation between religion and politics.In his late works, Gillespie has specialized in the relation between religion and politics. His last book titled \"The Theological Origins of Modernity\" and his article \"The Antitrinitarian Origins of Liberalism\" revealed the extent to which modern thought is indebted to Christianity, contributing to the breaking of the cliché that modernity is a decisive break from the Middle Ages. In its preface, Gillespie puts forth the objective of \"The Theological Origins of Modernity\":\"This book is an examination of the origins of modernity that is informed by this new scholarship and that seeks to demonstrate the importance of understanding the origins of modernity for coming to terms with the problems we now confront in our globalizing world. It is especially concerned to demonstrate the central role that religion and theology played in the formation of the idea of modernity.\"After his last works, in a survey relating to the members of the political science and philosophy departments in the United States, Gillespie was listed amongst the twenty most influential philosophers of the oncoming quarter century."@en }
Showing triples 1 to 1 of
1
with 100 triples per page.
- Michael_Allen_Gillespie abstract "Michael Allen Gillespie is an American philosopher and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University. His areas of interest are political philosophy, continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and the origins of modernity. He has published on medieval theology, Petrarch, humanism, Erasmus, Luther, Erasmus, Montaigne, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, American political thought, the relation between religion and politics.In his late works, Gillespie has specialized in the relation between religion and politics. His last book titled \"The Theological Origins of Modernity\" and his article \"The Antitrinitarian Origins of Liberalism\" revealed the extent to which modern thought is indebted to Christianity, contributing to the breaking of the cliché that modernity is a decisive break from the Middle Ages. In its preface, Gillespie puts forth the objective of \"The Theological Origins of Modernity\":\"This book is an examination of the origins of modernity that is informed by this new scholarship and that seeks to demonstrate the importance of understanding the origins of modernity for coming to terms with the problems we now confront in our globalizing world. It is especially concerned to demonstrate the central role that religion and theology played in the formation of the idea of modernity.\"After his last works, in a survey relating to the members of the political science and philosophy departments in the United States, Gillespie was listed amongst the twenty most influential philosophers of the oncoming quarter century.".