4. Making Democracy: The Jefferson-Hamilton Debates

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION: Ideas as Historical Forces 1
6. PART I. INVENTORS OF MODERNITY AND WHAT BECAME OF THEIR IDEAS
7. 1. Adam Smith: The Science of Man, Morality, and Money 19
8. 2. Karl Marx: The Tragic Consequences of a Brilliant Theory 81
9. 3. Charles Darwin: Struggle and Selection in the Realm of Ideas 148
10. 4. Making Democracy: The Jefferson-Hamilton Debates 215
11. PART II. SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS REACTIONS AGAINST ENLIGHTENMENT
12. 5. Counter-Enlightenment: From Antimodernism to Fascism 281
13. 6.Christian Fundamentalism: The Politics of God in America 336
14. 7. Purifying Islam: The Muslim Reaction against the Western Enlightenment 379
15. CONCLUSION: The Power of Ideas and the Importance of the Humanities 418
16. Bibliography 439
17. Index 473