The Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu

Keegan Callanan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and Visiting Fellow with the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is author of Montesquieu's Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics (Cambridge, 2018) and a member of the National Council on the Humanities. Sharon Krause is the William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of numerous articles on Montesquieu and other topics in political theory, as well as several books, including Liberalism with Honor (Harvard 2002), Civil Passions (Princeton 2008), and Freedom Beyond Sovereignty (Chicago 2015).

1. Montesquieu: life and letters by Paul A. Rahe; 2. Persian letters by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger; 3. Considerations on the Romans by Thomas L. Pangle; 4. On the spirit of the laws by Keegan Callanan; 5. Montesquieu and the classical world by Catherine Larrère; 6. Montesquieu's guiding principles and foundations by Cecil Courtney; 7. Virtue in Montesqueiu by David W. Carrithers; 8. Internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and empires by Michael Mosher; 9. Liberty in Montesquieu by Céline Spector; 10. Political sovereignty in Montesquieu by Sharon R. Krause; 11. Montesquieu on slavery by Vickie B. Sullivan; 12. Montesquieu on the liberty of women by Diana J. Schaub; 13. Political economy by Paul Cheney; 14. Religion and politics by Annelien de Dijn; 15. Constitutional history by Jacob T. Levy; 16. Montesquieu and the enlightenment by Jonathan Israel; 17. Montesquieu's liberal legacies by Rebecca E. Kingston; Bibliography.