Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family
Title | Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781584657507 |
An exceptional anthology designed for courses on Rousseau, the history of philosophy, and women's studies
Domesticating Passions
Title | Domesticating Passions PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Fermon |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1997-01-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780819563057 |
The role of women and family as central to Rousseau's concept of the modern, enlightened state.
The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Title | The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Schwartz |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1985-10-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0226742245 |
Joel Schwartz presents the first systematic treatment of Rousseau's understanding of the political importance of women, sexuality, and the family. Using both Rousseau's lesser-known literary works and such major writings as Emile, Julie, and The Second Discourse, he offers an original and provocative presentation of Rousseau's argument. To read Rousseau, Schwartz believes, is to enter into a profound discourse about the meaning of sexual equality and the opportunities, pitfalls, costs, and benefits that sexual relationships bestow and impose on us all. His own thoughtful reading of Rousseau opens up fresh perspectives on political philosophy and the history of sexual, masculine, and feminine psychology.
Romanticism and Civilization
Title | Romanticism and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Kremer |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1498527485 |
Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau’s foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the ills of modern civilization, and that Rousseau saw that the Enlightenment’s combination of science and of democracy degraded human life by making it bourgeois. The bourgeois is man uprooted by science and attached to nothing but himself. He lives a commercial life and his materialism and calculations penetrate all aspects of his existence. He is neither citizen, nor family man, nor lover in any serious sense: his life is meaningless. Rousseau’s romanticism in Julie is an attempt to find connectedness through the sentiments of private life and wholeness through love, marriage, and family.
Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Title | Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Lange |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780271047072 |
A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also has made him very controversial. The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state. Among the topics addressed by the contributors are the connections between Rousseau&’s political vision of the egalitarian state and his view of the &"natural&" role of women in the family; Rousseau&’s apparent fear of the actual danger and power of women; important questions Rousseau raised about child care and gender relations in individualist societies that feminists should address; the founding of republics; the nature of consent; the meaning of citizenship; and the conflation of modern universal ideals of democratic citizenship with modern masculinity, leading to the suggestion that the latter is as fragile a construction as the former. Overall this volume makes an important contribution to a core question at the hinge of modernism and postmodernism: how modern, egalitarian notions of social contract, premised on universality and objective reason, can yet result in systematic exclusion of social groups, including women. Contributors are Leah Bradshaw, Melissa A. Butler, Anne Harper, Sarah Kofman, Rebecca Kukla, Lynda Lange, Ingrid Makus, Lori J. Marso, Mira Morgenstern, Susan Moller Okin, Alice Ormiston, Penny Weiss, Elie Wiestad, Elizabeth Wingrove, Monique Wittig, and Linda Zerilli.
New Learning
Title | New Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Kalantzis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-06-29 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1107644283 |
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of New Learning explores the contemporary debates and challenges in education and considers how schools can prepare their students for the future. New Learning, Second Edition is an inspiring and comprehensive resource for pre-service and in-service teachers alike.
Emile
Title | Emile PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0486316203 |
Rousseau considered this tale of a young boy and his tutor the most important of his writings, and its exploration of the retention of human goodness and avoidance of social corruption remains highly influential.