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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract by : David Lay Williams
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract written by David Lay Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is freedom? What is equality? And what is sovereignty? A foundational text of modern political philosophy, Rousseau's Social Contract has generated much debate and exerted extraordinary influence not only on political thought, but also modern political history, by way of the French Revolution and other political events, ideals, and practices. The Social Contract is regularly studied in undergraduate courses of philosophy, political thought, and modern intellectual history, as well as being the subject of graduate seminars in numerous disciplines. The book inspires an ongoing flow of scholarly articles and monographs. Few texts have offered more influential and important answers to research questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provides new ways to navigate this masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau by : Patrick Riley
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau written by Patrick Riley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau by : Patrick Riley
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau written by Patrick Riley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Book Synopsis Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as The Social Contract and a selection of Rousseau's letters on important aspects of his thought. The Social Contract has become Rousseau's most famous single work, but on publication was condemned by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France and Geneva. Rousseau fled and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works as well as political essays such as On the Government of Poland. This 1997 volume, like its predecessor, contains a comprehensive introduction, chronology and guide to further reading, and will enable students to obtain a full understanding of the writings of one of the world's greatest thinkers.
Book Synopsis Rousseau's Social Contract by : David Lay Williams
Download or read book Rousseau's Social Contract written by David Lay Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text.
Book Synopsis The Social Contract by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Social Contract written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1968-06-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus by : Lloyd Gerson
Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus written by Lloyd Gerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of Plato in the following centuries approached Plato through him. This Companion from a new generation of ancient philosophy scholars reflects the current state of research on Plotinus, with chapters on topics including mathematics, fate and determinism, happiness, the theory of forms, categories of reality, matter and evil, and Plotinus' legacy. The volume offers an accessible overview of the thought of one of the pivotal figures in the history of philosophy, and reveals his importance as a thinker whose impact goes far beyond his importance as an interpreter of Plato.
Book Synopsis The Social Contract & Discourses by : Jean Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Social Contract & Discourses written by Jean Jacques Rousseau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of government and whether it is required was a great topic of discussion around the revolt against the French nobility at the time this book was written. The argument focuses around whether the idea of law and good conscious is written within each of us and that we all know how government should act and be carried out. The work then goes over the various forms of government and of them all which would fit the proposed "Social Contract" the best. Each as its own merits.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry by : Kerry C. Larson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry written by Kerry C. Larson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Constant by : Helena Rosenblatt
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Constant written by Helena Rosenblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. The Cambridge Companion to Constant presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars, offering a necessary overview for anyone who wants to better understand this important thinker. Separate sections are devoted to Constant as a political theorist and actor, his work as a social analyst and literary critic, and his accomplishments as a historian of religion. Themes covered range from Constant's views on modern liberty, progress, terror, and individualism, to his ideas on slavery and empire, literature, women, and the nature and importance of religion. The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Constant by : Helena Rosenblatt
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Constant written by Helena Rosenblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. This book presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars.
Book Synopsis On the Social Contract by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book On the Social Contract written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone of political science, Rousseau's 1762 work argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is rife with inequality. He proposes an alternative system for the development of self-governing, self-disciplined citizens.
Book Synopsis The Social Contract by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Social Contract written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jean Jaques Rousseau's Concept of Society and Government: A Study of the Social Contract by : Andrea Becker
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.
Book Synopsis Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment by : David Lay Williams
Download or read book Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment written by David Lay Williams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this sterling, deeply researched study, Williams explores how thinkers ranging from Hobbes to d'Holbach highlight various sets of ideas that Rousseau combated in developing his philosophical teaching. The account of Rousseau's predecessors who might be called Platonists is especially interesting, as is the account of those who qualify as materialists. Moreover, Williams provides a good overview of Rousseau's teaching, demonstrates a commendable grasp of the relevant secondary literature, and argues ably for the superiority of his own interpretations ... Clearly written and superbly organized, this book contributes much to Rousseau studies. An indispensable book for Rousseau scholars, this volume also will appeal to general readers and students at all levels."--C.E. Butterworth, CHOICE.
Download or read book The General Will written by James Farr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Rousseau and Geneva by : Helena Rosenblatt
Download or read book Rousseau and Geneva written by Helena Rosenblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr. Rosenblatt contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but Dr. Rosenblatt points out that he is, in fact, a Genevan thinker and explains that it was his relationship with Geneva that played an integral part in his development into an original political thinker.
