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Book Synopsis The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fresh new rendition of Rousseau’s major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike”—with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University). Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of such intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among the most important political thinkers in history. Renowned Rousseau scholar John T. Scott highlights his enduring influence with this superb new edition of his major political writings. This volume includes authoritative and lucid new translations of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, and On the Social Contract. The two Discourses show Rousseau developing his well-known conception of the natural goodness of man and the problems posed by life in society. With the Social Contract, Rousseau became the first major thinker to argue that democracy is the only legitimate form of political organization. Scott’s extensive introduction enhances our understanding of these foundational writings, providing background information, social and historical context, and guidance for interpreting the works. Throughout, translation and editorial notes clarify ideas and terms that might not be immediately familiar to most readers.
Book Synopsis The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Joel Schwartz
Download or read book The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Joel Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-10-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Schwartz presents the first systematic treatment of Rousseau's understanding of the political importance of women, sexuality, and the family. Using both Rousseau's lesser-known literary works and such major writings as Emile, Julie, and The Second Discourse, he offers an original and provocative presentation of Rousseau's argument. To read Rousseau, Schwartz believes, is to enter into a profound discourse about the meaning of sexual equality and the opportunities, pitfalls, costs, and benefits that sexual relationships bestow and impose on us all. His own thoughtful reading of Rousseau opens up fresh perspectives on political philosophy and the history of sexual, masculine, and feminine psychology.
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Tracy B. Strong
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Tracy B. Strong and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.
Book Synopsis The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Matt Qvortrup
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.
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : James R. Norton
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by James R. Norton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Swiss philospher and musician who contributed to the Enlightenment.
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Leopold Damrosch
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Leopold Damrosch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs the life of the French literary genius whose writing changed opinions and fueled fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic during the period of the American and French revolutions.
Book Synopsis Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Jonathan Marks
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: Publisher description
Download or read book Emile written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau considered this tale of a young boy and his tutor the most important of his writings, and its exploration of the retention of human goodness and avoidance of social corruption remains highly influential.
Book Synopsis The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Ernst Cassirer
Download or read book The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Ernst Cassirer and published by Bloomington, Indiana U. P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Paradoxes and interpretations by : John T. Scott
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Paradoxes and interpretations written by John T. Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Book Synopsis A Discourse on Inequality by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book A Discourse on Inequality written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of the relationship between civilization and inequality from one of history’s greatest minds The first man to erect a fence around a piece of land and declare it his own founded civil society—and doomed mankind to millennia of war and famine. The dawn of modern civilization, argues Jean-Jacques Rousseau in this essential treatise on human nature, was also the beginning of inequality. One of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, Rousseau based his work in compassion for his fellow man. The great crime of despotism, he believed, was the raising of the cruel above the weak. In this landmark text, he spells out the antidote for man’s ills: a compassionate revolution to pull up the fences and restore the balance of mankind. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith by : Charles L Griswold
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith written by Charles L Griswold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like? In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyzes, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Both thinkers discuss what we are by nature (in particular, whether we are sociable or not), who we have become, whether we can know ourselves or each other, how best to articulate the human condition, what it would mean to be free, and whether there is anything that can be done to remedy our deeply imperfect condition. In the course of examining their rich and contrasting views, Griswold puts Rousseau and Smith in dialogue by imagining what they might say in reply to one another. Griswold’s wide-ranging exploration includes discussion of issues such as narcissism, self-falsification, sympathy, the scope of philosophy, and the relation between liberty, religion and civic order. A superb exploration of two major philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter is essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political theory, economics, and religion.
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau by : Merle L. Perkins
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Merle L. Perkins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Merle L. Perkins links individual freedom with national power in offering a close reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's major texts. He sees in Rousseau's thought an extreme tension and interdependence between the idiosyncrasy of nonconforming character and an almost obsessive concern with the external pressures operating on the state.
Book Synopsis The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Reveries of the Solitary Walker written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation.
Book Synopsis Politics in Commercial Society by : Istvan Hont
Download or read book Politics in Commercial Society written by Istvan Hont and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar perspectives. In making his case, Hont begins with the concept of commercial society and explains why that concept has much in common with what the German philosopher Immanuel Kant called unsocial sociability. This is why many earlier scholars used to refer to an Adam Smith Problem and, in a somewhat different way, to a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem. The two problems—and the questions about the relationship between individualism and altruism that they raised—were, in fact, more similar than has usually been thought because both arose from the more fundamental problems generated by thinking about morality and politics in a commercial society. Commerce entails reciprocity, but a commercial society also entails involuntary social interdependence, relentless economic competition, and intermittent interstate rivalry. This was the world to which Rousseau and Smith belonged, and Politics in Commercial Society is an account of how they thought about it. Building his argument on the similarity between Smith’s and Rousseau’s theoretical concerns, Hont shows the relevance of commercial society to modern politics—the politics of the nation-state, global commerce, international competition, social inequality, and democratic accountability.
Book Synopsis The Discourses and Other Political Writings by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Discourses and Other Political Writings written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
