Rousseau's Socratic Aemilian Myths
Author : Madeleine B. Ellis
Publisher : Columbus : Ohio State University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
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Rousseau's Socratic Acmilian Myths
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Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 1977
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A Reinterpretation of Rousseau
Author : J. Alberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230607136
Book Description
In this radical reinterpretation of Rousseau, Jeremiah Alberg argues that the philosopher's system of thought is founded on theological scandal, and on Rousseau's inability to accept forgiveness. Alberg explores his views in relation to alternative forms of Christianity.
Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment
Author : Denise Schaeffer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271064455
Book Description
In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer’s analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.
Rousseau as Author
Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 2003-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226430232
Book Description
For Rousseau, "consecrating one's life to the truth" (his personal credo) meant publicly taking responsibility for what one publishes and only publishing what would be of public benefit. Christopher Kelly argues that this commitment is central to understanding the relationship between Rousseau's writings and his political philosophy. Unlike many other writers of his day, Rousseau refused to publish anonymously, even though he risked persecution for his writings. But Rousseau felt that authors must be self-restrained, as well as bold, and must carefully consider the potential political effects of what they might publish: sometimes seeking the good conflicts with writing the truth. Kelly shows how this understanding of public authorship played a crucial role in Rousseau's conception—and practice—of citizenship and political action. Rousseau as Author will be a groundbreaking book not just for Rousseau scholars, but for anyone studying Enlightenment ideas about authorship and responsibility.
Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche
Author : Laurence D. Cooper
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271035064
Book Description
Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza’s notion of conatus and Hobbes’s identification of “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power.” In this book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper’s overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.
Rousseau's Daughters
Author : Jennifer J. Popiel
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781584657323
Book Description
Provocative assessment of how new ideas about motherhood and domesticity in pre-Revolutionary France helped women demand social and political equality later on
Encounters with the Other
Author : Martin Calder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004490043
Book Description
Encounters with the Other brings together a range of eighteenth-century texts in which the exploration of lingua incognita figures as a prominent topos . Drawing mostly on a corpus of French texts, but also including a number of works in English, Martin Calder attempts to realign well-known texts with more canonically marginalized works. The originality of the perspectives offered by this book lies in the comparative reading of works not previously conjoined. Encounters with otherness are marked by a transgression of the limits of language, occurring when language becomes alien or unfamiliar. Alterity may take various forms: a foreign language, a familiar language marked by the traits of foreignness, something unrecognizable as language, or even one’s own language breaking down, as in madness. Unfamiliar language may be produced by a foreigner, by a child who cannot yet speak, in extreme cases by something unrecognizably human, in all cases by an agency somehow marked by difference. Narratives of encounters with otherness have written into them narratives of the discovery of the self. Implicitly informed by the reading techniques associated with literary theory, Encounters with the Other offers an insightful commentary on issues surrounding colonialism, cultural difference, gender and the importance of language to identity. Martin Calder’s work challenges certain Eurocentric notions and exposes the problematic links between Enlightenment rationality and colonial expansion. This book is of interest both to undergraduate students and to academic researchers, and to a more general readership concerned with understanding the relationship between Europe, the ‘West’ and a wider world.
Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion
Author : Daniel Guerri?re
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 1990-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791401712
Book Description
The first in a new series on depressive illness. Twelve contributions give detailed information on clinical characteristics of depressive disorders so as to further theoretical modeling and improve recognition and treatment. Eleven essays by important contemporary philosophers of religion representing the whole spectrum of phenomenology--transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, ethical, and deconstructive--engage with such 20th century thinkers as Husserl and Heidegger; Ricoeur, Gadamer, and Derrida; Freud and Eliade; and Tillich and Schillebeeks. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Emile, Or, On Education
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 1584656778
Book Description
The acclaimed series The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau concludes with a volume centering on Emile (1762), which Rousseau called his “greatest and best book.” Here Rousseau enters into critical engagement with thinkers such as Locke and Plato, giving his most comprehensive account of the relation between happiness and citizenship, teachers and students, and men and women. In this volume Christopher Kelly presents Allan Bloom’s translation, newly edited and cross-referenced to match the series. The volume also contains the first-ever translation of the first draft of Emile, the “Favre Manuscript,” and a new translation of Emile and Sophie, or the Solitaries. The Collected Writings of Rousseau Roger D. Masters and Christopher Kelly, series editors 1. Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques: Dialogues 2. Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (First Discourse) and Polemics 3. Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Second Discourse) Polemics, and Political Economy 4. Social Contract, Discourse on the Virtue Most Necessary for a Hero, Political Fragments, and Geneva Manuscript 5. The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes 6. Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps 7. Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music 8. The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières 9. Letter to Beaumont, Letters Written from the Mountain 10. Letter to D’Alembert and Writings for the Theater 11. The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics 12. Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings 13. Emile or On Education (Includes Emile and Sophie; or The Solitaries)
