The Coerced Conscience

Amy Gais is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a political theorist specializing in freedom, specifically the question of how individuals resist oppression. She was the recipient of the Robert C. Wood Prize and an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices finalist. Her work has been published by Political Theory, Review of Politics, and History of European Ideas, as well as public-facing outlets, such as Inside Higher Ed.

• 1. A New Kind of Politics? 2. John Milton and Expressive Conscience; 3. Thomas Hobbes and Instilled Conscience; 4. Baruch Spinoza and Conscientious Speech; 5. Pierre Bayle and Tormented Conscience; 6. The Politics of Conscience.

'The Coerced Conscience is a formidable and incisive book, one offering fresh ideas for cultivating and protecting conscience against anxieties of conformity, insincerity, hypocrisy, and torment. Gais supplies inspired analyses of long-standing concerns in modern and contemporary political theory, generating a powerful treatment for conscience and its demands.' Lucas Swaine, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College