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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... Parisian citizens , complaining that France , ' once kind and affectionate ' , had ' changed towards an unfortunate foreigner who is alone and without support and defender ' ( I : 998 ) . It is hard not to resort to adjectives such as ...
... Parisian citizens , complaining that France , ' once kind and affectionate ' , had ' changed towards an unfortunate foreigner who is alone and without support and defender ' ( I : 998 ) . It is hard not to resort to adjectives such as ...
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... Paris to seek fortune and fame . He found neither . However , he was able to charm influential ladies , like Madame de Broglie , who helped him land a job as a secretary to de Montaigu , the French ambassador to Venice . Rousseau duly ...
... Paris to seek fortune and fame . He found neither . However , he was able to charm influential ladies , like Madame de Broglie , who helped him land a job as a secretary to de Montaigu , the French ambassador to Venice . Rousseau duly ...
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... Parisian salons - and he certainly enjoyed himself there ( Cranston 1991 : 5 ) . He sang the praises of the rural ... Paris ' ( I : 396 ) . This , at any rate , is what he wrote in the Confessions . The view was different at the time ...
... Parisian salons - and he certainly enjoyed himself there ( Cranston 1991 : 5 ) . He sang the praises of the rural ... Paris ' ( I : 396 ) . This , at any rate , is what he wrote in the Confessions . The view was different at the time ...
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... Parisian woman with literary as- pirations ) . It was here , in rural solitude , that he started to write his most formidable contributions to philosophy : Emile , Du Contrat Social and La Nouvelle Héloïse . But it was also at L ...
... Parisian woman with literary as- pirations ) . It was here , in rural solitude , that he started to write his most formidable contributions to philosophy : Emile , Du Contrat Social and La Nouvelle Héloïse . But it was also at L ...
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... Paris where , by cruel irony , his coffin was placed next to Voltaire's . On the way to the Partheon - the converted ... ( Paris : Hachette , 1993 ) ; Raymond Trousson , Jean - Jacques Rousseau ( Paris : Tallandier , 1988-89 ) , 2 vols ...
... Paris where , by cruel irony , his coffin was placed next to Voltaire's . On the way to the Partheon - the converted ... ( Paris : Hachette , 1993 ) ; Raymond Trousson , Jean - Jacques Rousseau ( Paris : Tallandier , 1988-89 ) , 2 vols ...
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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