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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... thought in the context of different traditions in the history of West European thought ; show that Rousseau's political thinking was based on a profound ( conservative ) scepticism , which caused him to embrace institutional mechanisms ...
... thought in the context of different traditions in the history of West European thought ; show that Rousseau's political thinking was based on a profound ( conservative ) scepticism , which caused him to embrace institutional mechanisms ...
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... thought . Chapter 6 rounds off this tour de force of Rousseau's political philosophy by an account of his philosophy of music , which can be seen as a metaphor for his general philosophy . Acknowledgements Needless to say this book ...
... thought . Chapter 6 rounds off this tour de force of Rousseau's political philosophy by an account of his philosophy of music , which can be seen as a metaphor for his general philosophy . Acknowledgements Needless to say this book ...
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... thoughts of deceased men and women . Machiavelli - another thinker in the premier league of great minds - once wrote about this ( after he had fallen from grace and was exiled from his country ) : When evening has come , I return to my ...
... thoughts of deceased men and women . Machiavelli - another thinker in the premier league of great minds - once wrote about this ( after he had fallen from grace and was exiled from his country ) : When evening has come , I return to my ...
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... thought , which is reflected in his remarks about politics throughout his oeuvre . The hypothesis is that an understanding of his political philosophy is deepened by an understanding of his so - called non- political works . This view ...
... thought , which is reflected in his remarks about politics throughout his oeuvre . The hypothesis is that an understanding of his political philosophy is deepened by an understanding of his so - called non- political works . This view ...
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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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