The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibilty of ReasonThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This 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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... Contrat Social in search for incriminating quotes but found to my surprise ( and subsequent delight ) that my misgivings about the Genevan thinker had been both ill - informed and wrong . He did not conform to the stereotype as a native ...
... Contrat Social in search for incriminating quotes but found to my surprise ( and subsequent delight ) that my misgivings about the Genevan thinker had been both ill - informed and wrong . He did not conform to the stereotype as a native ...
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... Contrat Social and La Nouvelle Héloïse . But it was also at L'Ermitage that he became infatuated with Sophie d'Houdetot , Mme d'Epinay's sister - in - law . Rousseau - if we are to believe Hume ( Hume 1932 : 527 ) 10 The political ...
... Contrat Social and La Nouvelle Héloïse . But it was also at L'Ermitage that he became infatuated with Sophie d'Houdetot , Mme d'Epinay's sister - in - law . Rousseau - if we are to believe Hume ( Hume 1932 : 527 ) 10 The political ...
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... Contrat Social - not abstract considerations or armchair theorising . Of course he was not alone in this . The English Civil War prompted Hobbes to take up his pen , just as social inequality prompted Marx to follow suit . The list ...
... Contrat Social - not abstract considerations or armchair theorising . Of course he was not alone in this . The English Civil War prompted Hobbes to take up his pen , just as social inequality prompted Marx to follow suit . The list ...
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Contents
The disenchantment of the world | 19 |
Rousseaus and nationalism | 74 |
The last of the ancients the first of the moderns? | 95 |
in the beginning was song | 111 |
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