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Author: Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-16
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1107105765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRousseau's relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of 'conversations' between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'.
Author: Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-16
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108509053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual place within that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed. Thinking with Rousseau reconsiders his contribution to this tradition through a series of essays exploring the relationship between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'. Ranging from 'Rousseau and Machiavelli' to 'Rousseau and Schmitt', this volume focuses on the kind of intricate work that intellectuals do when they read each other and grapple with one another's ideas. This approach is very helpful in explaining how old ideas are transformed and/or transmitted and new ones are generated. Rousseau himself was a master at appropriating the ideas of others, while simultaneously subverting them, and as the essays in this volume vividly demonstrate, the resulting ambivalences and paradoxes in his thought were creatively mined by others.
Author: Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781107513594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual place within that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed. Thinking with Rousseau reconsiders his contribution to this tradition through a series of essays exploring the relationship between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'. Ranging from 'Rousseau and Machiavelli' to 'Rousseau and Schmitt', this volume focuses on the kind of intricate work that intellectuals do when they read each other and grapple with one another's ideas. This approach is very helpful in explaining how old ideas are transformed and/or transmitted and new ones are generated. Rousseau himself was a master at appropriating the ideas of others, while simultaneously subverting them, and as the essays in this volume vividly demonstrate, the resulting ambivalences and paradoxes in his thought were creatively mined by others.
Author: Nicholas Dent
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1134455666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas and arguments. These include the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his famous theories of amour de soi and amour propre, education, and his famous work Emile. He gives particular attention to Rousseau's theories of democracy and freedom found in his most celebrated work, The Social Contract, and explains what Rousseau meant by the 'general will'.
Author: Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781108517997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRousseau's relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of 'conversations' between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'
Author: Jonathan Marks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-06
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521850698
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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1974-04-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0452010314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith splendid new translations, these four major works offer a superlative introduction to a great social philosopher whose ideas helped spark a revolution that has still not ended. Can individual freedom and social stability be reconciled? What is the function of government? What are the benefits and liabilities of civilization? What is the original nature of man, and how can he most fully realize his potential? These were the questions that Jean-Jacques Rousseau investigated in works that helped set the stage for the French Revolution and have since stood as eloquent expressions of revolutionary views, not only in politics but also in such areas as personal lifestyles and educational practices. Rousseau’s concepts of the natural goodness of man, the corrupting influence of social institutions, and the right and the power of the people to overthrow their oppressors and create new and more responsive forms of government and society are as richly relevant today as they were in eighteenth-century France. Includes: The Social Contract Discourse on Inequality Discourse on the Arts and Sciences “The Creed of a Savoyard Priest” (from Emile)
Author: N. J. H. Dent
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415283496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with an overview of Rousseau's life & works, Dent assesses the central ideas & arguments of Rousseau's philosophy, including the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his theories of amour de soi & amour propre, & his theories of education.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Gauthier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-04-24
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0521809762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier examines Rousseau's evolving notion of freedom, where he focuses on a single quest: Can freedom and the independent self be regained? Rousseau's first answer is given in Emile, where he seeks to create a self-sufficient individual, neither materially nor psychologically enslaved to others. His second is in the Social Contract, where he seeks to create a citizen who identifies totally with his community, experiencing his dependence on it only as a dependence on himself. Rousseau implicitly recognized the failure of these solutions. His third answer is one of the main themes of the Confessions and Reveries, where he is made for a love that merges the selves of the lovers into a single, psychologically sufficient unity that makes each 'better than free'. But is this response a chimaera?
