Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781108705189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 243 str.

Avi Lifschitz

Opis

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most controversial thinkers in the history of philosophy. An interdisciplinary project involving political scientists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and literary scholars, Engaging with Rousseau considers diverse responses to his works and self-fashioned image from the Enlightenment onwards, and from Eastern Europe to Latin America.

Spis treści

1. 'A lover of peace more than liberty'? The Genevan rejection of Rousseau's politics Richard Whatmore; 2. Adrastus versus Diogenes: Frederick the Great and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on self-love Avi Lifschitz; 3. Sources of evil or seeds of the good? Rousseau and Kant on needs, the arts and the sciences Alexander Schmidt; 4. Rousseau and French liberalism, 1789–1870 Jeremy Jennings; 5. Rousseau and the redistributive republic: nineteenth-century French interpretations Jean-Fabien Spitz; 6. Echoes of the social contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770–1825 Monika Baár; 7. Reading Rousseau in Spanish America during the Wars of Independence (1808–26) Nicola Miller; 8. 'The porch to a collectivism as absolute as the mind of man has ever conceived': Rousseau scholarship in Britain from the Great War to the Cold War Christopher Brooke; 9. Rousseau at Harvard: John Rawls and Judith Shklar on realistic utopia Céline Spector; 10. Rousseau's dilemma Philip Pettit; 11. The depths of recognition: the legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Axel Honneth; Bibliography; Index.