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The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  December, 2000  by Mitchell, Joshua

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By David Walsh. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 256p. $65.00 cloth. $22.95 paper.

"Without war," Rousseau writes in the First Discourse (1750), "there would be no history." What, then, is the place of political philosophy in a cosmopolitan world, in which passions have been transposed into interests, and war has been rendered obsolete by free trade? Perhaps that is a dream for the future, but nevertheless we are justified in asking whether political philosophy is useless when wars end. The efflorescence of political philosophy in the twentieth ...

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