Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana U. P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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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.

Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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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.

Author: John M. Warner
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077239
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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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.

Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Author: John T. Scott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415350846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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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.

Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Author: Richard L. Velkley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226852560
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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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.

Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780844618210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Ernst Cassirer
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Languages : en
Pages :

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