Cargando…

Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

An examination of responses to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's works and self-fashioned image from the Enlightenment onwards across Europe and the Americas.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lifschitz, Avi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on the texts and references; 1 'A lover of peace more than liberty'?: The Genevan rejection of Rousseau's politics; 2 Adrastus versus Diogenes: Frederick the Great and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on self-love; 3 Sources of evil or seeds of the good?: Rousseau and Kant on needs, the arts, and the sciences; 4 Rousseau and French liberalism, 1789-1870; 5 Rousseau and the redistributive republic: Nineteenth-century French interpretations.
  • 6 Echoes of the Social Contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770-18257 Reading Rousseau in Spanish America during the wars of independence (1808-1826); 8 'The porch to a collectivism as absolute as the mind of man has ever conceived': Rousseau scholarship in Britain from the Great War to the Cold War; 9 Rousseau at Harvard: John Rawls and Judith Shklar on realistic utopia; 10 Rousseau's dilemma; 11 The depths of recognition: The legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Bibliography; Index.