The Epicurean Republic is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart. In his later years, Thomas Jefferson referred to “the revolutionary part of the [American] Revolution”, which for him meant the founding ideals that would serve as a model for the world on how to build a modern state, as opposed to an incidental squabble between one country and its former colonists.
This conversation explores how many of these ideals that Jefferson referred to are part of an intellectual thread that passes through key Enlightenment thinkers such as Spinoza and can be traced all the way back to Epicurus.
This conversation will be released in a carefully-edited video format. Available now is an enhanced book developed from the conversation, while Matthew Stewart is also featured in 3 short documentaries – all details are below.
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
The Epicurean Republic is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About History, Volume 3, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
Matthew Stewart is featured in 3 short documentaries together with several other renowned scholars.
