The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
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Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life
Author: Laurence D. Cooper
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2021-12
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0271029889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rise of modern science created a crisis for Western moral and political philosophy, which had theretofore relied either on Christian theology or Aristotelian natural teleology as guarantors of an objective standard for &"the good life.&" This book examines Rousseau's effort to show how and why, despite this challenge from science (which he himself intensified by equating our subhuman origins with our natural state), nature can remain a standard for human behavior. While recognizing an original goodness in human being in the state of nature, Rousseau knew this to be too low a standard and promoted the idea of &"the natural man living in the state of society,&" notably in Emile. Laurence Cooper shows how, for Rousseau, conscience&—understood as the &"love of order&"&—functions as the agent whereby simple savage sentiment is sublimated into a more refined &"civilized naturalness&" to which all people can aspire.
Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-07-13
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780521424455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming a comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. This second volume contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses, the publication of which signalled the power and challenge of Rousseau's thinking. Rousseau's influence was wide reaching and has continued to grow since his death: major landmarks in world history, such as the American and French Revolutions, were profoundly affected by Rousseau's writing, as were cultural and intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Idealism. This volume, like its successor, 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.
Music and the Origins of Language
Author: Downing A. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-06-15
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0521473071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study analyses reflections on music and considers ways in which it facilitates links between language and meaning.
Signs of Light
Author: Matthew Lauzon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 080145770X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Signs of Light, Matthew Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of national character. Drawing examples from a variety of French and English language works in a wide range of areas, including language theory, philosophy, rhetoric, psychology, missionary tracts, and literary texts, Lauzon explores how French and British thinkers of the day developed arguments that certain kinds of languages are superior to others. The nature of animal language and British and French understandings of the languages of North American Indians were vigorously debated. Theories of animal language juxtaposed the apparent virtues of transparency and wit; considerations of savage language resulted in eloquence being regarded as an even higher accomplishment. Eventually, the French language came to be prized for its wit and sociability and English for its simple clarity and vigor. Lauzon shows that, besides concerns about establishing the clarity of introspective representations, questions about the energetic communication of sincere emotion and about the sociable communication of wit were crucial to language theories during this period. A richly interdisciplinary work, Signs of Light is a compelling account of a formative period in language theory.
Rousseau
Author: Timothy O'Hagan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1134393717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTimothy O'Hagan investigates Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings concerning the formation of humanity, of the individual and of the citizen in his three master works: the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Men, Emile and the Social Contract. He explores Rousseau's reflections on the sexes, language and religion. O'Hagan gives Rousseau's arguments a close and sympathetic reading. He writes as a philosopher, not a historian, yet he never loses sight of the cultural context of Rousseau's work.
At the Origins of Mathematical Economics
Author: Richard Van Den Berg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-12-19
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1134401493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering new book examines the life and work of Achille Nicolas Isnard. It illuminates his major contributions to political economy and contains substantial extracts from a number of his publications in French and English.
Barbarism and Religion
Author: J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-02
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780521797603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new sequence of works from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.
The Odyssey of Political Theory
Author: Patrick J. Deneen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2003-04-14
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 146164500X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars,' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy.
Sovereign Feminine
Author: Matthew Head
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0520954769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity—a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal—linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.
