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Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 150174593X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this stimulating reading of Rousseau's Confessions, Christopher Kelly breaks down the artificial distinction traditionally made between this autobiographical work and Rousseau's overtly philosophical works. At the same time, Kelly provides us with the most complete commentary on the Confessions written in any language.
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-02-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0226430243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Rousseau, "consecrating one's life to the truth" (his personal credo) meant publicly taking responsibility for what one publishes and only publishing what would be of public benefit. Christopher Kelly argues that this commitment is central to understanding the relationship between Rousseau's writings and his political philosophy. Unlike many other writers of his day, Rousseau refused to publish anonymously, even though he risked persecution for his writings. But Rousseau felt that authors must be self-restrained, as well as bold, and must carefully consider the potential political effects of what they might publish: sometimes seeking the good conflicts with writing the truth. Kelly shows how this understanding of public authorship played a crucial role in Rousseau's conception—and practice—of citizenship and political action. Rousseau as Author will be a groundbreaking book not just for Rousseau scholars, but for anyone studying Enlightenment ideas about authorship and responsibility.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1611682924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRousseau's complete work, unified in English for the first time, premiers with an original translation of his Dialogues
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781584657507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exceptional anthology designed for courses on Rousseau, the history of philosophy, and women's studies
Author: Jean Rousseau
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781611686456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNoteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780874518368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.
Author: Eve Grace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780429020773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean-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.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780192822758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.
Author: Heinrich Meier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-04
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 022607403X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents -- Preface -- Preface to the American Edition -- Note on Citations -- Translator's Note and Acknowledgments -- First Book -- I. The Philosopher among Nonphilosophers -- II. Faith -- III. Nature -- IV. Beisichselbstsein -- V. Politics -- VI. Love -- VII. Self-Knowledge -- Second Book -- Rousseau and the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar -- Name Index
Author: Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2023-04-15
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1501769243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing's complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of life—and how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering. Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made central—and that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of "human wisdom." Rousseau made this again the supreme theme and source of norms for political philosophy and for humanity's moral as well as civic existence. In his analysis of The Reveries, Pangle uncovers Rousseau's most profound exploration and articulation of his own life, personality, soul, and thought as "the man of nature enlightened by reason." He describes, in Rousseau's final work, the fullest embodiment of the experiential wisdom from which flows and to which points Rousseau's political and moral philosophy, his theology, and his musical and literary art.
