The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibility of ReasonThis exciting new text presents the first overview of Jean Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative? This original study argues that the he was a constitutionalist much closer to Madison, Montesquieu, and Locke than to revolutionaries. Outlining his profound opposition to Godless materialism and revolutionary change, this book finds parallels between Rousseau and Burke, as well as showing how Rousseau developed the first modern theory of nationalism. The book presents an integrated political analysis of Rousseau's educational, ethical, religious and political writings, and will be essential reading for students of politics, philosophy and the history of ideas. |
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... action but not the result of human design ' ( Fergusson 1767 : 187 ) . Thus wrote Adam Fergusson , a prominent thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment , and - alongside Edmund Burke , David Hume , and Josiah Tucker - a proponent of the ...
... action but not the result of human design ' ( Fergusson 1767 : 187 ) . Thus wrote Adam Fergusson , a prominent thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment , and - alongside Edmund Burke , David Hume , and Josiah Tucker - a proponent of the ...
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... action problems , something which , perhaps , is most visible in the fable of the stag hunt in the Discourse on Inequality . He wrote : men were able imperceptibly to acquire some crude idea of mutual commitments and the advantage of ...
... action problems , something which , perhaps , is most visible in the fable of the stag hunt in the Discourse on Inequality . He wrote : men were able imperceptibly to acquire some crude idea of mutual commitments and the advantage of ...
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... actions without recognising that goodness exists - clearly an impossibility . The philosophers of modernity have ( in vain ) ... action to be just ' , wrote Rousseau , ' it must be so in all its relations . ' Eric Weil might have been ...
... actions without recognising that goodness exists - clearly an impossibility . The philosophers of modernity have ( in vain ) ... action to be just ' , wrote Rousseau , ' it must be so in all its relations . ' Eric Weil might have been ...
Contents
The disenchantment of the world | 19 |
Rousseaus and nationalism | 74 |
The last of the ancients the first of the moderns? | 95 |
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