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The Free Animal : Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature / Lee MacLean.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLean, Lee, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Free will and determinism.
- Human beings--Philosophy.
- Human beings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lee MacLean shows that Rousseau needs and uses the idea of human consciousness of free will to explain the development of morality, convention, and vice. MacLean bases her argument on a broad range of texts, from canonical works to Rousseau's untranslated letters and drafts. 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."--Pub. desc
- "Free will is a key but contested concept in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: while the famed philosopher is known to have asserted that free will distinguishes human beings from animals, several interpreters have argued that he merely pretends to have this belief for the sake of healthy politics and to avoid persecution by religious authorities. Through careful readings of key texts and letters, The Free Animal offers a new and original exploration of Rousseau's views on free will, just in time for the 200th anniversary of his birth
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Interpreting Free Will and Perfectibility in the Discourse on Inequality
- Chapter 2: Free Will and Human Development: the Genealogy of Vice
- Chapter 3: Free Will in Emile: Interpreting The Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar
- Chapter 4: The Quality of Rousseau's Intention and the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-233) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442664265
- 1442664266
- 9781442663725
- 1442663723
- OCLC:
- 865475208
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