Lessons on Rousseau

Lessons on Rousseau

Author: Louis Althusser

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 178478558X

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Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the cole normale suprieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau's ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. Second, we are now discovering that the "late Althusser's" theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy "for Marx" were being worked out well before 1985 in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau's text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency.


Lessons on Rousseau

Lessons on Rousseau

Author: Louis Althusser

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1784785598

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Althusser dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopher Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau's ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. A new way of coming to terms with Rousseau's theoretical rigour, beneath his apparent reveries and sentimental flights of fancy, was here put to work. Second, we are now discovering that the 'late Althusser's' theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy 'for Marx' were being worked out well before 1985 - in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau's text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency.


New Learning

New Learning

Author: Mary Kalantzis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1107644283

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Fully updated and revised, the second edition of New Learning explores the contemporary debates and challenges in education and considers how schools can prepare their students for the future. New Learning, Second Edition is an inspiring and comprehensive resource for pre-service and in-service teachers alike.


Discourse on the Sciences and Arts

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge. Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau's thought. Whereas his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge.


Rousseau and German Idealism

Rousseau and German Idealism

Author: David James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1107037859

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A systematic account of Rousseau's significance in relation to Kant's, Fichte's and Hegel's views on freedom, dependence and necessity.


The Legacy of Rousseau

The Legacy of Rousseau

Author: Clifford Orwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-03-29

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0226638561

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Few thinkers have enjoyed so pervasive an influence as Rousseau, who originated dissatisfaction with modernity. By exploring polarities articulated by Rousseau—nature versus society, self versus other, community versus individual, and compassion versus competitiveness—these fourteen original essays show how his thought continues to shape our ways of talking, feeling, thinking, and complaining. The volume begins by taking up a central theme noted by the late Allan Bloom—Rousseau's critique of the bourgeois as the dominant modern human type and as a being fundamentally in contradiction, caught between the sentiments of nature and the demands of society. It then turns to Rousseau's crucial polarity of nature and society and to the later conceptions of history and culture it gave rise to. The third part surveys Rousseau's legacy in both domestic and international politics. Finally, the book examines Rousseau's contributions to the virtues that have become central to the current sensibility: community, sincerity, and compassion. Contributors include Allan Bloom, François Furet, Pierre Hassner, Christopher Kelly, Roger Masters, and Arthur Melzer.


Animal Lessons

Animal Lessons

Author: Kelly Oliver

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0231147279

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Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animals show us how not to be them. This kinship plays out in a number of ways. We sacrifice animals to establish human kinship, but without the animal, the bonds of "brotherhood" fall apart. Either kinship with animals is possible or kinship with humans is impossible. Philosophy holds that humans and animals are distinct, but in defending this position, the discipline depends on a discourse that relies on the animal for its very definition of the human. Through these and other examples, Oliver does more than just establish an animal ethics. She transforms ethics by showing how its very origin is dependent upon the animal. Examining for the first time the treatment of the animal in the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, among others, Animal Lessons argues that the animal bites back, thereby reopening the question of the animal for philosophy.


Rousseau, Law and the Sovereignty of the People

Rousseau, Law and the Sovereignty of the People

Author: Ethan Putterman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-22

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0521765382

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Examines Rousseau's contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to twenty-first century debates.


Rousseau

Rousseau

Author: Timothy O'Hagan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780415308632

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is considered to be one of the most influential and controversial political philosophers.