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Rousseau's Republican Romance

Author : Elizabeth Rose Wingrove
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823544
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Republican Romance written by Elizabeth Rose Wingrove and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rousseau's Republican Romance, Elizabeth Wingrove combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer important insights into the paradoxes of democratic consent. She suggests that despite Rousseau's own protestations, "man" and "citizen" are not rival or contradictory ideals. Instead, they are deeply interdependent. Her provocative reconfiguration of republicanism introduces the concept of consensual nonconsensuality--a condition in which one wills the circumstances of one's own domination. This apparently paradoxical possibility appears at the center of Rousseau's republican polity and his romantic dyad: in both instances, the expression and satisfaction of desire entail a twin experience of domination and submission. Drawing on a wide variety of Rousseau's political and literary writings, Wingrove shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes his representations of desire and identity. She demonstrates the inseparability of republicanism and accounts of heterosexuality in an analysis that emphasizes the sentimental and somatic aspects of citizenship. In Rousseau's texts, a politics of consent coincides with a performative politics of desire and of emotion. Wingrove concludes that understanding his strategies of democratic governance requires attending to his strategies of symbolization. Further, she suggests that any understanding of political practice requires attending to bodily practices.

Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love

Author : Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615552
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love by : Frederick Neuhouser

Download or read book Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love written by Frederick Neuhouser and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love—the recognition —of their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching developmental possibilities for creatures that possess it. One of Rousseau's central theses is that amour propre in its corrupted, manifestations—pride or vanity—is the principal source of an array of evils so widespread that they can easily appear to be necessary features of the human condition: enslavement, conflict, vice, misery, and self-estrangement. Yet Rousseau also argues that solving these problems depends not on suppressing or overcoming the drive for recognition but on cultivating it so that it contributes positively to the achievement of freedom, peace, virtue, happiness, and unalienated selfhood. Indeed, Rousseau goes so far as to claim that, despite its many dangers, the need for recognition is a condition of nearly everything that makes human life valuable and that elevates it above mere animal existence: rationality, morality, freedom—subjectivity itself—would be impossible for humans if it were not for amour propre and the relations to others it impels us to establish.

The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author : Matt Qvortrup
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 184779582X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Matt Qvortrup and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This exciting new text presents the first overview of Jean Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative? This original study argues that the he was a constitutionalist much closer to Madison, Montesquieu, and Locke than to revolutionaries. Outlining his profound opposition to Godless materialism and revolutionary change, this book finds parallels between Rousseau and Burke, as well as showing how Rousseau developed the first modern theory of nationalism. The book presents an integrated political analysis of Rousseau's educational, ethical, religious and political writings, and will be essential reading for students of politics, philosophy and the history of ideas.

Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584657507
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional anthology designed for courses on Rousseau, the history of philosophy, and women's studies

Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity

Author : Mark Hulliung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492586
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity written by Mark Hulliung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to capture Jean-Jacques Rousseau's astonishing contribution to our understanding of the dilemmas of modernity. For the contributors to this book Rousseau is present as well as past, because he was so modern and yet so ambivalent about modernity, a position with which we are quite familiar. Highlighted in this volume is the contention that Rousseau set the stage for many discussions of the good and bad of modernity.Previous efforts to deal with Rousseau and modernity have suffered from myopia. In the nineteenth century the Romantics claimed Rousseau as one of their own, pulling him out of his historical context, ignoring his full scale immersion in the debates of the French Enlightenment. In the twentieth century commentators have read into Rousseau the ahistorical and present-minded Cold War theme of "Rousseau the totalitarian."In this volume Rousseau is treated as a person of his age but also as someone who speaks to us today. The topics covered range from feminism, music, science, and political theory, to updating the classics, and to the search for and limitations to the quest for self-knowledge. Few if any figures can compete with Rousseau when it comes to forcing us to face up to the price we pay for "progress."

Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment

Author : Denise Schaeffer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064455
Total Pages : 370 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 370 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.

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.

Love's Enlightenment

Author : Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316982661
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Love's Enlightenment written by Ryan Patrick Hanley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped to shape the way we understand love today: Hume's theory of humanity, Rousseau's theory of pity, Smith's theory of sympathy, and Kant's theory of love. It argues that these four Enlightenment theories are united by a shared effort to develop a moral psychology that can provide both justificatory and motivational grounds for concern for others in the absence of recourse to theological or transcendental categories. In this sense, each theory represents an effort to redefine the love of others that used to be known as caritas or agape - a redefinition that came with benefits and costs that have yet to be fully appreciated.

Rousseau in Drag

Author : R. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010622
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau in Drag written by R. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative gender identity, but also normative familial and kinship relations.

The Parent as Citizen

Author : Brian Duff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816672725
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Parent as Citizen written by Brian Duff and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ideas about parenthood undermine politics.

Rousseau: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Matthew Simpson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144115082X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Matthew Simpson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most engaging yet enigmatic philosophers of the eighteenth century. He wrote with a flair and directness unique among great thinkers, yet beneath the surface of his works there is an extraordinarily complex theory of human nature and society. His diverse body of writing often leaves students struggling to find a coherent philosophical outlook. Rousseau: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Rousseau's major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to the complicated thought of this key philosopher. The book covers the whole range of Rousseau's life and work, offering a detailed review of his landmark philosophical texts, including The Social Contract and Emile, together with examination of his influential contribution to the social sciences . The book provides a cogent and reliable survey of the famous paradoxes in his philosophy and shows how they fit together into a coherent and important theory of culture and politics. This book is the ideal companion to the study of this most influential and challenging philosopher.

Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author : Lynda Lange
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047072
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Lynda Lange and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also has made him very controversial. The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state. Among the topics addressed by the contributors are the connections between Rousseau&’s political vision of the egalitarian state and his view of the &"natural&" role of women in the family; Rousseau&’s apparent fear of the actual danger and power of women; important questions Rousseau raised about child care and gender relations in individualist societies that feminists should address; the founding of republics; the nature of consent; the meaning of citizenship; and the conflation of modern universal ideals of democratic citizenship with modern masculinity, leading to the suggestion that the latter is as fragile a construction as the former. Overall this volume makes an important contribution to a core question at the hinge of modernism and postmodernism: how modern, egalitarian notions of social contract, premised on universality and objective reason, can yet result in systematic exclusion of social groups, including women. Contributors are Leah Bradshaw, Melissa A. Butler, Anne Harper, Sarah Kofman, Rebecca Kukla, Lynda Lange, Ingrid Makus, Lori J. Marso, Mira Morgenstern, Susan Moller Okin, Alice Ormiston, Penny Weiss, Elie Wiestad, Elizabeth Wingrove, Monique Wittig, and Linda Zerilli.

Mourning Happiness

Author : Vivasvan Soni
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801448171
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Mourning Happiness written by Vivasvan Soni and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?"--Adam Potkay

Democracy and the Death of Shame

Author : Jill Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316546152
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Death of Shame written by Jill Locke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is shame dead? With personal information made so widely available, an eroding public/private distinction, and a therapeutic turn in public discourse, many seem to think so. People across the political spectrum have criticized these developments and sought to resurrect shame in order to protect privacy and invigorate democratic politics. Democracy and the Death of Shame reads the fear that 'shame is dead' as an expression of anxiety about the social disturbance endemic to democratic politics. Far from an essential supplement to democracy, the recurring call to 'bring back shame' and other civilizing mores is a disciplinary reaction to the work of democratic citizens who extend the meaning of political equality into social realms. Rereadings from the ancient Cynics to the mid-twentieth century challenge the view that shame is dead and show how shame, as a politically charged idea, is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

Creolizing Rousseau

Author : Jane Anna Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783482826
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Creolizing Rousseau written by Jane Anna Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing a creolizing reading of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this volume explores Rousseau’s strong resonances in Caribbean thought and politics.

Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author : Jonathan Marks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446570
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Jonathan Marks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Marks offers an interpretation of the philosopher's thought and its place in the contemporary debate between liberals and communitarians. Against prevailing views, he argues that Rousseau's thought revolves around the natural perfection of a naturally disharmonious being. At the foundation of Rousseau's thought he finds a natural teleology that takes account of and seeks to harmonize conflicting ends. The Rousseau who emerges from this interpretation is a radical critic of liberalism who is nonetheless more cautious about protecting individual freedom than his milder communitarian successors. Marks elaborates on the challenge that Rousseau poses to liberals and communitarians alike by setting up a dialogue between him and Charles Taylor, one of the most distinguished ethical and political theorists at work today.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author : Joseph R. Reisert
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801440960
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Joseph R. Reisert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on his deep familiarity with Rousseau's work, Reisert maintains that Rousseau's primary concern was to discover the psychological foundations of virtue, which he understood as the strength of will needed to respect the rights of others. Reisert reconstructs the model of the human soul that underpins Rousseau's account of virtue, a model he considers superior to the alternatives conceived by Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Kant, and Rawls. Rousseau, the author explains, believed that life in modern societies undermines virtue, but that for individuals to thrive, and for free societies to endure, all would require moral education. Rousseau, who styled himself "a friend of virtue," sought to impart virtue to his readers through the examples of his literary characters Emile and Julie.".