Rousseau Among the Moderns
Title | Rousseau Among the Moderns PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Simon |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 027106272X |
Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and the Confessions, as well as other texts. She links Rousseau’s understanding of key concepts in music, such as tuning, harmony, melody, and form, to the crucial problem of the individual’s relationship to the social order. The choice of music as the privileged aesthetic object enables Rousseau to gain insight into the role of the aesthetic realm in relation to the social and political body in ways often associated with later thinkers. Simon argues that much of Rousseau’s “modernism” resides in the unique role that he assigns to music in forging communal relations.
Rousseau Among the Moderns
Title | Rousseau Among the Moderns PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Simon |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271069678 |
Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and the Confessions, as well as other texts. She links Rousseau’s understanding of key concepts in music, such as tuning, harmony, melody, and form, to the crucial problem of the individual’s relationship to the social order. The choice of music as the privileged aesthetic object enables Rousseau to gain insight into the role of the aesthetic realm in relation to the social and political body in ways often associated with later thinkers. Simon argues that much of Rousseau’s “modernism” resides in the unique role that he assigns to music in forging communal relations.
Rousseau
Title | Rousseau PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Cohen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010-02-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199581495 |
Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. He also explores Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian ideas that we are naturally good.
Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Title | Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Marks |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2005-10-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521850698 |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Title | Jean-Jacques Rousseau PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy B. Strong |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002-04-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1461665612 |
Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.
Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment
Title | Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | David Lay Williams |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780271045511 |
"In this sterling, deeply researched study, Williams explores how thinkers ranging from Hobbes to d'Holbach highlight various sets of ideas that Rousseau combated in developing his philosophical teaching. The account of Rousseau's predecessors who might be called Platonists is especially interesting, as is the account of those who qualify as materialists. Moreover, Williams provides a good overview of Rousseau's teaching, demonstrates a commendable grasp of the relevant secondary literature, and argues ably for the superiority of his own interpretations ... Clearly written and superbly organized, this book contributes much to Rousseau studies. An indispensable book for Rousseau scholars, this volume also will appeal to general readers and students at all levels."--C.E. Butterworth, CHOICE.
Rousseau and the Modern State
Title | Rousseau and the Modern State PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2019-04-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0429640188 |
First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau. It was acclaimed by English reviewers as ‘an excellently arranged, lucidly written, unbiased account of Rousseau’s political theory’, a ‘scholarly book, distinguished for lucidity both in thought and style’, and a ‘first-rate book in defence of the essential sanity of Rousseau’s thought’.