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Rousseau's Politics of Taste / Jared Holley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holley, Jared, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Reinterprets Rousseau as a political thinker by reconstructing his Epicurean theory of taste.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- 1. Introduction: A Taste for Virtue
- 2. Modern Epicureanism: Between Sociability and Atheism
- 3. Rousseau's Epicureanism: From Atheism to Aesthetics
- Part II
- 4. The Problem of Modern Liberty: Sociability, Taste, Commerce
- 5. The Foundations of Political Judgement: Amour-propre, General Taste, General Will
- 6. The Memorial Practice of Happiness: Temperance, Sensuality, and Rousseau's System
- Afterword: Revisiting Rousseau's Paradoxes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-2117-9
- 1-3995-2118-7
- OCLC:
- 1453618790
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