The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibilty of Reason

ISBN-13: 9780719065811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 135 str.

Mads Qvortrup

Opis

This title presents an overview of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau - the great theorist of the French Revolution - really a conservative? constitutionalist much closer to Madison, Montesquieu and Locke than to revolutionaries. Outlining his profound opposition to Godless materialism and revolutionary change, this book finds parallels between Rousseau and Burke, as well as showing that Rousseau developed the first modern theory of nationalism. ethical, religious and political writings, and should be of value to students of politics, philosophy and the history of ideas.