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Rousseau and Desire /

The nature and meaning of desire in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work have thus far received little attention in Rousseau scholarship. Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity.T...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blackell, Mark (Editor ), Duncan, John (Editor ), Kow, Simon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Rousseau, Desire, and Modernity / Blackell, Mark / Duncan, John / Kow, Simon
  • PART ONE. From the Standard of Natural Independence to the Challenges of Bourgeois Capitalism
  • 1. Perfectibility, Chance, and the Mechanism of Desire Multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality / Duncan, John
  • 2. An Alternative to Economic Man: The Limitation of Desire in Rousseau's Emile / Roosevelt, Grace
  • 3. Rousseau's Mandevillean Conception of Desire and Modern Society / Kow, Simon
  • PART TWO. Desire and the Problem of Others in Modernity
  • 4. Desire and Will: The Sentient and Conscious Self in Locke and Rousseau / Grigoropoulou, Vasiliki
  • 5. Openings that Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau / Froese, Katrin
  • 6. Rousseau, Constant, and the Political Institutionalization of Ambivalence / Blackell, Mark
  • PART THREE. Sex, Kids, Love, and the City
  • 7. 'The Pleasures Associated with the Reproduction of Men': Rousseau on Desire and the Child / Duff, Brian
  • 8. Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Morgenstern, Mira
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index