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Rousseau's counter-Enlightenment : a republican critique of the Philosophes / Graeme Garrard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garrard, Graeme, 1965-
- Series:
- SUNY series in social and political thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 190 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. The Enlightenment Republic of Letters 11
- The Party of Humanity 11
- The Virtue of Selfish Sociability 19
- 2. Philosophe, Madman, Revolutionary, God: The Many Faces of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 29
- Rousseau and the Philosophes 30
- The Invention of the "Revolutionary" Rousseau 35
- 3. Unsociable Man: Rousseau's Critique of Enlightenment Social Thought 41
- From Contract to Community 42
- Natural Order, Social Disorder 45
- 4. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment Republic of Virtue 55
- Extending amour-propre 56
- Statecraft as Soulcraft 59
- Rousseau's "Manly" Republic 64
- 5. On the Utility of Religion 69
- The Religious Basis of Morality 72
- The Union of Church and State 76
- 6. Dare to Be Ignorant! 83
- Messieurs de l'Encyclopedie 84
- "A Sweet and Precious Ignorance" 87
- The Light Within 92
- 7. The Worst of All Possible Worlds 103
- The Cautious Optimism of the Philosophes 103
- Rousseau's Optimism about the Past 106
- Rousseau's Pessimism about the Future 111.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 079145603X
- 0791456048
- OCLC:
- 49386134
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