The Rousseauian mind / edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grace, Eve, editor.

Kelly, Christopher, 1950- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge philosophical minds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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Summary:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is a major figure in Western Philosophy and is one of the most widely read and studied political philosophers of all time. His writings range from abstract works such as On the Social Contract to literary masterpieces such as The Reveries of the Solitary Walker as well as immensely popular novels and operas. The Rousseauian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers: The predecessors and contemporaries to Rousseau's work The major texts of the 'system' Autobiographical texts including Confessions, Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Dialogues Rousseau's political science The successors to Rousseau's work Rousseau applied today. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Rousseau's work is central to the study of political philosophy, the Enlightenment, French studies, the history of philosophy and political theory.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Abbreviations in references; Introduction; Part I Predecessors and contemporaries; 1 Rousseau's Socratic 'sentimentalism'; 2 Rousseau's debt to Plutarch; 3 Rethinking the source of evil in Rousseau's Confessions; 4 Rousseau and Machiavelli; 5 'Men as they are and laws as they can be': legitimacy and the state of nature in Rousseau and Hobbes; 6 John Locke's influence on Rousseau; 7 Rousseau and Leibniz: genealogy vs. theodicy; 8 Rousseau and Fénelon; 9 Virtue and the ancient city: Rousseau's debt to Montesquieu

10 Rousseau and Diderot: materialism and its discontents11 Rousseau and Hume: the philosophical quarrel; 12 Rousseau and Adam Smith on sincerity and authenticity; 13 How would Rousseau have answered the Scots?; Part II The major texts of the 'system'; 14 The Discourse on the Sciences and Arts; 15 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; 16 Emile; or On Education; 17 The Social Contract; Part III Autobiographical texts; 18 Rousseau's Confessions: a pattern for living; 19 Reflecting on the outlaw: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques in light of the Greek tragedians

20 To walk, to dream, to philosophizePart IV Nature, reason, and society; 21 Rousseau's responses to human progress; 22 Rousseau and sciences; 23 From nature to society; 24 Moral motivation and rhetoric; 25 Contradictions: thought at risk; 26 On the naturalness of friendship and the family; 27 Rousseau on music: a case of nature vs. nurture; 28 Inequality; 29 Cosmopolitanism versus patriotism; Part V Squaring the circle: Rousseau's political science; 30 Rousseau's political science; 31 Rousseau's political economy; 32 Rousseau's legislative reveries

33 Rousseau's place in the civil-religion tradition34 The political possibilities of the faith of the Savoyard Vicar; 35 Who needs civil religion?; Part VI In conversation with successors; 36. Rousseau and Kant: imitation, genius, and scandal; 37 Self-unity, culture, and aesthetic education: Prolegomena to Schiller's Rousseauian mind; 38 The economics of philosophical anthropology: Hegel versus Rousseau; 39 Rousseau and Tocqueville; 40 Rousseau, Derrida, and imitative novelty; Part VII Rousseau applied today; 41. Rousseau and feminism; 42 Rousseau and public intellectuals

43 Rousseau and environmentalism44 External relations, international relations: Rousseau on war and the law of war; 45 Conclusion; Index.

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ISBN:

9780429020773

0429020775

9780429667947

0429667949

9780429662508

0429662505

9780429665226

0429665229

OCLC:

1083096614

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