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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... later to be further elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville and present-day theorists and practitioners of social capital, like the political scientist Robert Putnam and the English politician David Blunkett. It is argued that Rousseau ...
... later to be further elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville and present-day theorists and practitioners of social capital, like the political scientist Robert Putnam and the English politician David Blunkett. It is argued that Rousseau ...
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... later to be further elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville and present - day theorists and practitioners of social capital , like the political scientist Robert Putnam and the English politician David Blunkett . It is argued that Rousseau ...
... later to be further elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville and present - day theorists and practitioners of social capital , like the political scientist Robert Putnam and the English politician David Blunkett . It is argued that Rousseau ...
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... later , one of his most famous disciples , Jean - Jacques Rousseau , sought to emulate the Florentine master , by taking up his pen . Like his philosopher colleague , the Swiss thinker also believed that political philosophy should be a ...
... later , one of his most famous disciples , Jean - Jacques Rousseau , sought to emulate the Florentine master , by taking up his pen . Like his philosopher colleague , the Swiss thinker also believed that political philosophy should be a ...
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... later ) handed out notes to the 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 ...
... later ) handed out notes to the 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 ...
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... later to be depicted as Sickness unto Death by another anti - rationalist , Søren Kierkegaard ) . ' ' Instead of removing my doubts and curing my uncertainties [ the philosophers and the scientists ] have shaken all my most assured ...
... later to be depicted as Sickness unto Death by another anti - rationalist , Søren Kierkegaard ) . ' ' Instead of removing my doubts and curing my uncertainties [ the philosophers and the scientists ] have shaken all my most assured ...
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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