Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looks at the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through his writings. Studies the influence of his doctrines on Burke, De Maistre, Bohand and the Age of Reason.
Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Jonathan Marks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher description
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith
Author: Charles L Griswold
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315436558
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like? In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyzes, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Both thinkers discuss what we are by nature (in particular, whether we are sociable or not), who we have become, whether we can know ourselves or each other, how best to articulate the human condition, what it would mean to be free, and whether there is anything that can be done to remedy our deeply imperfect condition. In the course of examining their rich and contrasting views, Griswold puts Rousseau and Smith in dialogue by imagining what they might say in reply to one another. Griswold’s wide-ranging exploration includes discussion of issues such as narcissism, self-falsification, sympathy, the scope of philosophy, and the relation between liberty, religion and civic order. A superb exploration of two major philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter is essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political theory, economics, and religion.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315436558
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like? In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyzes, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Both thinkers discuss what we are by nature (in particular, whether we are sociable or not), who we have become, whether we can know ourselves or each other, how best to articulate the human condition, what it would mean to be free, and whether there is anything that can be done to remedy our deeply imperfect condition. In the course of examining their rich and contrasting views, Griswold puts Rousseau and Smith in dialogue by imagining what they might say in reply to one another. Griswold’s wide-ranging exploration includes discussion of issues such as narcissism, self-falsification, sympathy, the scope of philosophy, and the relation between liberty, religion and civic order. A superb exploration of two major philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter is essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political theory, economics, and religion.
The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300043280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300043280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Being After Rousseau
Author: Richard L. Velkley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226852560
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and society that Rousseau brought to the fore. The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique, they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has distorted.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226852560
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and society that Rousseau brought to the fore. The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique, they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has distorted.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Paradoxes and interpretations
Author: John T. Scott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415350846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415350846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations
Author: John M. Warner
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077239
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable—that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships—sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association—as well as alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the neo-Kantian Rawlsian school. The result is an insightful exploration of the way Rousseau inspires readers to imbue social relations with purpose and meaning, only to show the impossibility of reaching wholeness through such relationships. While Rousseau may raise our hopes only to dash them, Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations demonstrates that his ambitious failure offers unexpected insight into the human condition and into the limits of Rousseau’s critical act.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077239
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable—that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships—sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association—as well as alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the neo-Kantian Rawlsian school. The result is an insightful exploration of the way Rousseau inspires readers to imbue social relations with purpose and meaning, only to show the impossibility of reaching wholeness through such relationships. While Rousseau may raise our hopes only to dash them, Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations demonstrates that his ambitious failure offers unexpected insight into the human condition and into the limits of Rousseau’s critical act.
Rousseau's Theory of Freedom
Author: Matthew Simpson
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Offers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty.
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Offers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty.