Philip Stewart

Philip Stewart was raised in public schools and an independent evangelical church in Kansas City, Missouri. He spent his professional career teaching French and literature at Duke University, and has written numerous books on the literature, art, and culture of the Enlightenment. He is currently co-editor of the complete correspondence of Montesquieu, one of the most influential political philosophers of the eighteenth century. He lives with his wife in Clinton, New York and Durham, North Carolina.