Author

Publication

2016 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781107146327
  • ISBN-101107146321
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016017599
  • OCLC Control Number947041961
  • Better World Books9781107146327
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Classifications

  • LCCB2137.E54 2016
  • LCCB2137 .E54 2016

Description

Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been cast as a champion of Enlightenment and a beacon of Romanticism, a father figure of radical revolutionaries and totalitarian dictators alike, an inventor of the modern notion of the self, and an advocate of stern ancient republicanism. Engaging with Rousseau treats his writings as an enduring topic of debate, examining the diverse responses they have attracted from the Enlightenment to the present. Such notions as the general will were, for example, refracted through very different prisms during the struggle for independence in Latin America and in social conflicts in Eastern Europe, or modified by thinkers from Kant to contemporary political theorists. Beyond Rousseau's ideas, his public image too travelled around the world. This book examines engagement with Rousseau's works as well as with his self-fashioning; especially in turbulent times, his defiant public identity and his call for regeneration were admired or despised by intellectuals and political agents. --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the PresentCambridge University Press2016-01-01

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