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Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment
- A Republican Critique of the Philosophes
Engelsk Paperback

Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment

- A Republican Critique of the Philosophes
Engelsk Paperback

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Sees Rousseau as the father of Counter-Enlightenment thought.

Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrard presents the first book-length case that shows Rousseau as the pivotal figure in the emergence of Counter-Enlightenment thought. Viewed in the context in which he actually lived and wrote-from the middle of the eighteenth century to his death in 1778-it is apparent that Rousseau categorically rejected the Enlightenment "republic of letters" in favor of his own "republic of virtue." The philosophes, placing faith in reason and natural human sociability and subjecting religion to systematic criticism and doubt, naively minimized the deep tensions and complexities of collective life and the power disintegrative forces posed to social order. Rousseau believed that the ever precarious social order could only be achieved artificially, by manufacturing "sentiments of sociability," reshaping individuals to identify with common interests instead of their own selfish interests.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
206
ISBN-13:
9780791456040
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0791456048
Udg. Dato:
9 jan 2003
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
9 jan 2003
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