Rousseau and "L'Infame"
Rousseau and

Author: Ourida Mostefai

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9042025050

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Ecrasez l'infâme! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examination of Rousseau's dialogue with Voltaire. What come to light from this confrontation are two leading and at times competing world views and conceptions of the place of the engaged writer in society.

Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity
Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity

Author: Mark Hulliung

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1351492586

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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."

Leadership and the Unmasking of Authenticity
Leadership and the Unmasking of Authenticity

Author: Brent Edwin Cusher

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1786430991

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Leadership and the Unmasking of Authenticity presents a philosophic treatment of the core concept of authentic leadership theory, with a view toward illuminating how authors in the history of philosophy have understood authenticity as an ideal for humanity. Such an approach requires a broader view of the historical origins of authenticity and the examination of related ideas such as self-knowledge and deception. The chapters of this book illuminate the conflict between the contemporary understanding of authenticity and traditional philosophy by revisiting the ideas of thinkers who express self-knowledge as a cornerstone of their philosophy.

Love's Enlightenment
Love's Enlightenment

Author: Ryan Patrick Hanley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1107105226

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This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

The General Will
The General Will

Author: James Farr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1107057019

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Includes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

The Rousseauian Mind
The Rousseauian Mind

Author: Eve Grace

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 0429665229

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is a major figure in Western Philosophy and is one of the most widely read and studied political philosophers of all time. His writings range from abstract works such as On the Social Contract to literary masterpieces such as The Reveries of the Solitary Walker as well as immensely popular novels and operas. The Rousseauian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers: The predecessors and contemporaries to Rousseau’s work The major texts of the 'system' Autobiographical texts including Confessions, Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Dialogues Rousseau’s political science The successors to Rousseau’s work Rousseau applied today. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Rousseau’s work is central to the study of political philosophy, the Enlightenment, French studies, the history of philosophy and political theory.

The Challenge of Rousseau
The Challenge of Rousseau

Author: Eve Grace

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107018285

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The essays in this volume focus on Rousseau's genuine yet undervalued stature as a philosopher.

Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn
Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn

Author: E. Kennedy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0230601685

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In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.