Rousseau's Theory of Freedom
Title | Rousseau's Theory of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Simpson |
Publisher | Continuum |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2006-04-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Offers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty.
Rousseau and Freedom
Title | Rousseau and Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Christie McDonald |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2010-04-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139486241 |
Debates about freedom, an ideal continually contested, were first set out in their modern version by the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His ideas and analyses were taken up during the philosophical enlightenment, often invoked during the French Revolution, and still resonate in contemporary discussions of freedom. This volume, first published in 2010, examines Rousseau's many approaches to the concept of freedom, in the context of his thought on literature, religion, music, theater, women, the body, and the arts. Its expert contributors cross disciplinary frontiers to develop thought-provoking new angles on Rousseau's thought. By taking freedom as the guiding principle of their analysis, the essays form a cohesive account of Rousseau's writings.
Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment
Title | Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Schaeffer |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2014-01-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271064471 |
In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer’s analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.
Rousseau and German Idealism
Title | Rousseau and German Idealism PDF eBook |
Author | David James |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2013-08-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107037859 |
A systematic account of Rousseau's significance in relation to Kant's, Fichte's and Hegel's views on freedom, dependence and necessity.
Fugitive Rousseau
Title | Fugitive Rousseau PDF eBook |
Author | Jimmy Casas Klausen |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2014-03-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0823257312 |
Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery. Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.
The Free Animal
Title | The Free Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Lee MacLean |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442644958 |
Featuring careful analyses and an extensive engagement with the secondary literature, The Free Animal offers a novel interpretation of the changing nature and complexity of Rousseau's intention.
The Social Contract, and Discourses
Title | The Social Contract, and Discourses PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | J M Dent & Sons Limited |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780525026600 |
After an old university friend and fellow archeologist's murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.