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Rousseau and Radical Democracy

Author : Kevin Inston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441146113
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau and Radical Democracy written by Kevin Inston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau and Radical Democracy presents the first comprehensive examination of Rousseau's founding role in, and continuing relevance for, recent and influential theories of democracy. Kevin Inston demonstrates the actuality of Rousseau's thinking through an analysis of his deep connection with the groundbreaking work of contemporary European thinkers, including Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe. The book affirms Rousseau's centrality for current debates in democratic thought by showing how, contrary to common assumptions, his writings emphasise the openness and difference necessary for a dynamic mode of democracy committed to extending the principles of freedom and equality. By connecting Rousseau's philosophy with present-day thinking, Inston stresses the theoretical consistency of his political thought against those influential deconstructive readings of his work by thinkers such as Derrida and De Man. This book argues that the ambiguities and tensions in Rousseau actually form part of the logic of Rousseau's rigorous reflection on democracy that accepts the inherent incompleteness and uncertainty of any political project as the condition of freedom and change.

Rousseau and Radical Democracy

Author : Kevin Inston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472547439
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau and Radical Democracy written by Kevin Inston and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau and Radical Democracy presents the first comprehensive examination of Rousseau's founding role in, and continuing relevance for, recent and influential theories of democracy. Kevin Inston demonstrates the actuality of Rousseau's thinking through an analysis of his deep connection with the groundbreaking work of contemporary European thinkers, including Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe. The book affirms Rousseau's centrality for current debates in democratic thought by showing how, contrary to common assumptions, his writings emphasise the openness and difference necessary for a dynamic mode.

Jean Jaques Rousseau's Concept of Society and Government: A Study of the Social Contract

Author : Andrea Becker
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638292002
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Jean Jaques Rousseau's Concept of Society and Government: A Study of the Social Contract written by Andrea Becker and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1 - (A-), University of Wyoming (Department of Political Science), course: Recent Political Thought, language: English, abstract: “Man is born free and, and everywhere he is in chains. One believes himself the other’s master, and yet is more a slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. What can it make legitimate? I believe I can solve this.”1 Regarding this quoted statement, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Of the Social Contract or Principles of Political Right (in the following referred to as the Social Contract) of 1762 tries to explain and solve the problems of the society Rousseau lived in with the idea of a somewhat direct democracy and a radical popular sovereignty. Accordingly, the author’s theory is the counterpart to the early liberal Montesquieuian model of a state with a binding constitution, but also to the later classical liberal theories of democracy of John Stuart Mill. In general, Rousseau is known as a representative of the concept of direct democracy and as an intercessor of the identity of governors and the governed. Moreover, he pledged for the inseparability of popular sovereignty. 2 Taking this into consideration, Rousseau’s Social Contract – although censored and prohibited in his own time – remains a key source of democratic belief and is one of the classics of political theory. His theories were viewed so controversially that they were even publicly burned. So, the Social Contract and Emile or on Education (1762) became victims of the flames.3 This was, because basically, the Social Contract argues, that “the first and the most important consequences of the principles established so far is that the general will [volonté générale] alone can direct the forces of the state according to the end of its institution, which is the common good.”4 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings, edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), 1997, Book I, p. 41. 2 Manfred G. Schmidt: Demokratietheorien. Eine Einführung, 2. Auflage, Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1997, pp. 23-24. 3 Merle L. Perkins: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Individual and Society, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974, p. 239. 4 Rousseau: The Social Contract, Book II, p. 57.

Democracy

Author : Ricardo Blaug
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780231124812
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Democracy written by Ricardo Blaug and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when democracy appears to be universally acclaimed as the only acceptable form of government, it is all the more necessary to be clear about what democracy means. Democracy: A Reader provides a range of pivotal statements on this important topic from supporters and defenders as well as critics and skeptics.

Rousseau and Radical Democracy

Author : Kevin Inston
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144112845X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau and Radical Democracy written by Kevin Inston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Inston argues for the relevance of Rousseau's thought to contemporary debates about democracy and the work of such thinkers as Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe.

Public Vision, Private Lives

Author : Mark S. Cladis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199722951
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Public Vision, Private Lives written by Mark S. Cladis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice, Cladis convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary. Honoring both love of self and love of that which is larger than the self--these twin poles, with all the tension between them--mark Rousseau's work, vision and challenge--the challenge of 21st-century democracy.

The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author : Mads Qvortrup
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719065811
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Mads Qvortrup and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents an overview of Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was the great theorist of the French Revolution really a conservative? The text argues that the author of 'The Social Contract' was a constitutionalist closer to Montesquieu and Locke than to revolutionaries.

The Democratic Paradox

Author : Chantal Mouffe
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789604710
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Paradox written by Chantal Mouffe and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious threat to democratic institutions. Taking issue with John Rawls and Jrgen Habermas on one side, and the political tenets of Blair, Clinton and Schrder on the other, Mouffe brings to the fore the paradoxical nature of modern liberal democracy in which the category of the 'adversary' plays a central role. She draws on the work of Wittgenstein, Derrida, and the provocative theses of Carl Schmitt, to propose a new understanding of democracy which acknowledges the ineradicability of antagonism in its workings.

Fugitive Rousseau

Author : Jimmy Casas Klausen
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823257312
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Fugitive Rousseau written by Jimmy Casas Klausen and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery. Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.

A Revolution of the Mind

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152608
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book A Revolution of the Mind written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declaration of Human Rights.

Adventures of the Symbolic

Author : Warren Breckman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023114394X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of the Symbolic written by Warren Breckman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Breckman critically revisits thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.

Rousseau and German Idealism

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037859
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau and German Idealism written by David James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic account of Rousseau's significance in relation to Kant's, Fichte's and Hegel's views on freedom, dependence and necessity.

The Oxford Handbook of William James

Author : Alexander Mugar Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199395691
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of William James written by Alexander Mugar Klein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Handbook provides a structured overview of William James's intellectual work. James was a pioneer of the "new" physiological psychology of the late nineteenth century. He was also a founder of the pragmatist movement in philosophy and made influential contributions to metaphysics and to the study of religion as well. This Handbook's chapters are organized either around major themes in James's writing or around his conversations with interlocutors"--

Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy

Author : Kojin Karatani
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372711
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy written by Kojin Karatani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy—published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages—Kōjin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia—a system based on non-rule and a lack of social divisions whereby equality is realized through the freedom to immigrate—Karatani shows how early Greek thinkers from Heraclitus to Pythagoras were inseparably linked to the isonomia of their Ionian origins, not democracy. He finds in isonomia a model for how an egalitarian society not driven by class antagonism might be put into practice, and resituates Socrates's work and that of his intellectual heirs as the last philosophical attempts to practice isonomia's utopic potentials. Karatani subtly interrogates the democratic commitments of Western philosophy from within and argues that the key to transcending their contradictions lies not in Athenian democracy, with its echoes of imperialism, slavery, and exclusion, but in the openness of isonomia.

Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment

Author : Denise Schaeffer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064463
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment written by Denise Schaeffer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer’s analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.

Rousseau and Revolution

Author : Holger Ross Lauritsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441164138
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau and Revolution written by Holger Ross Lauritsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political philosophy of the 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau has long been associated with the dramatic events of the French Revolution. In this book, an international team of scholars has been brought together to examine the connection between Rousseau's thought and the revolutionary traditions of modern Europe. The book explores Rousseau's own conceptions of violence and revolution in contrast to those of other thinkers such as Hegel and Fanon and in connection with his ideas on democracy. Historical analyses also consider Rousseau's thinking in light of the French Revolution in particular and the European revolutions that have followed it. Across the eleven chapters the book also touches on such issues as citizenship, activism, terrorism and the State. In doing so, the book reveals Rousseau to be an important source of insight into contemporary political problems.

The General Will

Author : Andrew Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521443229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The General Will written by Andrew Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical, political program. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the "general will." Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory, and democratic theory.