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The Rousseauian mind
Title
The Rousseauian mind / edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly.
ISBN
0429020775
0429662505
0429665229
0429667949
9780429020773
9780429662508
9780429665226
9780429667947
1138205311
9781138205314
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 515 pages)
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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.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Rousseauian mind. 1 [edition]. New York : Routledge, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
The Routledge philosophical minds
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of Contributors
Abbreviations in references
Introduction / Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace
I. Predecessors and contemporaries
1. Rousseau's Socratic 'Sentimentalism' / Eve Grace
2. Rousseau's Debt to Plutarch / Rebecca Kingston
3. Rethinking the Source of Evil in Rousseau's Confessions / Wing Kwan Anselm Lam
4. Rousseau and Machiavelli / Vickie B. Sullivan
5. 'Men as they are and laws as they can be': Legitimacy and the State of Nature in Rousseau and Hobbes
Susan Meld Shell
6. John Locke's Influence on Rousseau / Lee Ward
7. Rousseau and Leibniz: Genealogy vs. Theodicy / Christophe Litwin
8. Rousseau and Fénelon / Ryan Patrick Hanley
9. Virtue and the Ancient City: Rousseau's Debt to Montesquieu / Andrea Radasanu
10. Rousseau and Diderot: Materialism and its Discontents / Celine Spector
11. Rousseau and Hume: The Philosophical Quarrel / Dennis C. Rasmussen
12. Rousseau and Adam Smith on Sincerity and Authenticity / John McHugh
13. How Would Rousseau Have Answered the Scots? / Mark Hulliung
II. The Major Texts of the System
14. The Discourse on the Sciences and Arts / Jeff J.S. Black
15. Discourse on the Origin Inequality / Christopher Kelly
16. Emile; or On Education / John T. Scott
17. The Social Contract / Matthew C. Simpson
III. Autobiographical Texts
18. Rousseau's Confessions: A Pattern for Living / Laura K. Field
19. Reflecting on the Outlaw: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques in Light of the Greek Tragedians / Jean-François Perrin
20. To Walk, To Dream, To Philosophize / Pierre Manent
IV. Nature, Reason, and Society
21. Rousseau's Responses to Human Progress / Timothy O'Hagan
22. Rousseau and Sciences / Christophe Van Staen
23. From Nature to Society / Daniel Cullen
24. Moral Motivation and Rhetoric / Denise Schaeffer
25. Contradictions: Thought at Risk / Claude Habib
26. On the Naturalness of Friendship and Family / John Warner
27. Rousseau on Music: A Case of Nature vs. Nature / Jacqueline Waeber
28. Inequality / Robin Douglass
29. Cosmopolitanism versus Patriotism / Matthew D. Mendham
V. Squaring the Circle: Rousseau's Political Science
30. Rousseau's Political Science / Joseph Reisert
31. Rousseau's Political Economy / Geneviève Rousselière
32. Rousseau's Legislative Reveries / Pamela K. Jensen
33. Rousseau's Place in the Civil Religion Tradition / Ronald Beiner
34. The Political Possibilities of the Faith of the Savoyard Vicar / Kimberley J. Burns
35. Who Needs Civil Religion? / Mira Morgenstern
VI. In conversation with successors
36. Rousseau and Kant: Imitation, Genius, and Scandal / Jeremiah Alberg
37. Self-Unity, Culture and Aesthetic Education: Prolegomena to Schiller's Rousseauian Mind / Richard Velkley
38. The Economics of Philosophical Anthropology: Hegel versus Rousseau / Paul A. Cantor
39. Rousseau and Tocqueville / Matthew W. Maguire
40. Rousseau, Derrida and Imitative Novelty / Wang Wei
VII. Rousseau applied today
41. Rousseau and Feminism / Eileen Hunt Botting
42. Rousseau and Public Intellectuals / Jonathan Marks
43. Rousseau and Environmentalism / Zev Trachtenberg
44. External Relations, International relations: Rousseau on War and the Law of War / Blaise Bachofen
Conclusion
Index.
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