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Matthew Stewart

Matthew Stewart is an independent philosopher and historian who has written extensively about the philosophical origins of the American republic, the history of philosophy, management theory, and the culture of inequality. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review, among other publications. In recent years he has lived in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, and is currently based in London.

Matthew Stewart

Awards

Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2006

Books by Matthew Stewart

Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Matthew Stewart
Hardback, 2014
A startling, paradigm-shifting exploration of the revolutionary part of the American Revolution: the ideas that changed the world for good.
The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy
Matthew Stewart
Paperback, 2010
"A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting…A serious and valuable polemic." —Wall Street Journal
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
Matthew Stewart
Paperback, 2007
"Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Matthew Stewart
Paperback, 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award.Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
Matthew Stewart
E Book, 2007
"Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy
Matthew Stewart
E Book, 2009
"A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting…A serious and valuable polemic." —Wall Street Journal
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Matthew Stewart
E Book, 2014
A startling, paradigm-shifting exploration of the revolutionary part of the American Revolution: the ideas that changed the world for good.
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Matthew Stewart
Hardback, 2024
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the American Civil War
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Matthew Stewart
E Book
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the American Civil War