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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... creating a good polity. He ceaselessly emphasised that political education was necessary for creating a good society. An understanding of his constitutionalism is not enough – as Fralin (1974) seems to contend. Rather it is necessary to ...
... creating a good polity. He ceaselessly emphasised that political education was necessary for creating a good society. An understanding of his constitutionalism is not enough – as Fralin (1974) seems to contend. Rather it is necessary to ...
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... creating a good polity . He ceaselessly emphasised that political education was necessary for creating a good society . An understanding of his constitutionalism is not enough - as Fralin ( 1974 ) seems to contend . Rather it is ...
... creating a good polity . He ceaselessly emphasised that political education was necessary for creating a good society . An understanding of his constitutionalism is not enough - as Fralin ( 1974 ) seems to contend . Rather it is ...
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... created art out of his sufferings , nor that these writings themselves contain elements of a profound political philosophy . Yet not everybody has been convinced . Paul de Man , the Ameri- can literary critic , found that ' the more ...
... created art out of his sufferings , nor that these writings themselves contain elements of a profound political philosophy . Yet not everybody has been convinced . Paul de Man , the Ameri- can literary critic , found that ' the more ...
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... created a new trend in literature and politics . The sentiment that science had demystified the world - that the scientists had produced a worldview devoid of meaning by killing the graceful God of the Gospels in blind pursuit of wanton ...
... created a new trend in literature and politics . The sentiment that science had demystified the world - that the scientists had produced a worldview devoid of meaning by killing the graceful God of the Gospels in blind pursuit of wanton ...
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... created the noxious Rousseau . At the height of his powers , in 1792 , the demagogue presented himself as the self - anointed incarnation of the General Will . Addressing the Jacobins he confidently declared ; ' For us , we are not of ...
... created the noxious Rousseau . At the height of his powers , in 1792 , the demagogue presented himself as the self - anointed incarnation of the General Will . Addressing the Jacobins he confidently declared ; ' For us , we are not of ...
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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