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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... example , where should one stop ? ( Foucault 1996a : 106 ) Foucault believed it impossible to draw the line - he even mused that we had to consider the shopping list as a part of the collected works ! Foucault notwithstanding , this ...
... example , where should one stop ? ( Foucault 1996a : 106 ) Foucault believed it impossible to draw the line - he even mused that we had to consider the shopping list as a part of the collected works ! Foucault notwithstanding , this ...
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... example in Lettre à Voltaire ) taken the line of William Ockham , i.e. credo ut absurdum , Rousseau now seemed to have succumbed to non credo ut non - intelligam . Or did he ? He subsequently , in Lettre à Chistophe Beaumont , argued ...
... example in Lettre à Voltaire ) taken the line of William Ockham , i.e. credo ut absurdum , Rousseau now seemed to have succumbed to non credo ut non - intelligam . Or did he ? He subsequently , in Lettre à Chistophe Beaumont , argued ...
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... ( Gallimard : Bibliothèque de la Pléiade , 1959-95 ) , 5 vols . This will be cited by volume number followed by page number , e.g. III : 96 , means Volume 3 , page 96 ) . 3 See , for example , ' Rousseau et la The politics of the soul 15.
... ( Gallimard : Bibliothèque de la Pléiade , 1959-95 ) , 5 vols . This will be cited by volume number followed by page number , e.g. III : 96 , means Volume 3 , page 96 ) . 3 See , for example , ' Rousseau et la The politics of the soul 15.
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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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