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Rousseau between nature and culture : philosophy, literature, and politics /

Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and cu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Deneys-Tunney, Anne (Editor ), Zarka, Yves Charles (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
Colección:Culture & conflict ; Bd. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Editions and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Technology: Between Nature and Anti-Nature
  • Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss's "Master"
  • Rousseau and the Authority of Nature
  • Nature as Blind Space
  • Rousseau and Technology: The Invention of a New Ecological Paradigm
  • Rousseau and "The Mechanical Life"
  • II. Politics and Ethics: Beyond the Nature/Culture Polarity
  • Rousseau's Ethical Freedom
  • Remarks on Rousseau's Dictatorship: Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt
  • Politics and Religion in the Social Contract
  • Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending Nature/Culture Dualism
  • Rousseau and the Sovereignty of the People
  • III. The Philosophical Novel: Culture as Nature's Supplement
  • Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse
  • Recomposing the Diffracted Text: Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book of Nature
  • Nature, Culture, and the Social Contract: Emile's point of view
  • Contributors
  • Index.