Rousseau Today: Interdisciplinary Essays

ISBN-13: 9783031292422 / Angielski

Neal Harris; Denis C. Bosseau; Ployjai Pintobtang

Opis

This book demonstrates that Rousseau offers a distinctive critical voice which is worthy of listening to. Rousseau is shown to target not merely social ‘injustices’, but the very dynamics central to the ‘form of life’ itself. As such we are able to contemplate, and engage in, a more foundational form of social critique. We contend that by returning to Rousseau, both as a theorist in his own right, and as an interlocutor with the contemporary literature within radical political and social philosophy, we can see both the circumscribed nature of contemporary discussion, and the true importance of Rousseau’s thought. In summary, Rousseau remains a figure of vital importance across disciplines and it is high time for an edited volume which connects insights centring his thought and impact today.

Spis treści

Part One: Rousseau Reloaded

Chapter 1/Introduction: Rousseau Reloaded by editors

Chapter 2: Rousseau and the Post Liberal World by Jim Block

Part Two: Republicanism and Sovereignty Revisited

Chapter 3: Rousseau: Radical Democrat or Radical Republican by Michael J. Thompson

Chapter 4: ‘The Most Absolute Authority’: Rousseau and the Tensions of Mass Sovereignty, by Peter Hallward

Chapter 5: Sovereignty as Responsibility: Rousseau and the Dialectic of Practical Reason by Cody Trojan and Matthew Hamilton

Part Three: Rousseau and Political-Economy

Chapter 6: Althusser, Rousseau and the Politics of the Encounter by Panagiotis Sotiris

Chapter 7: Economic Democracy and Rousseau’s Political Thought by Robin Jervis and Chris Wyatt

Part Four: Transgression and Resistance: Rousseau, Queer Theory, and Decoloniality

Chapter 8: Olympe de Gouges: Gendering Rousseau by Martina Reuter

Chapter 9: Toward a Queer and Feminist Ecology in The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Rosanne T Kennedy

Chapter 10: Why Did So Many Global Southern Revolutionaries Love and “Reload” the Ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?  by Jane Ana Gordon & Rozenna Maart

Part Five: Rousseau and Critical Theory

Chapter 11: The ambivalence of human sociality: Rousseau and recognition by Onni Hirvonen

Chapter 12: Psychoanalytic Reading of Julie by Owen Brown

Chapter 13: The general will and neoliberalism: a study of individual and social freedom using the theories of Rousseau, Marcuse, and Fromm by Daniel F. Davis

Part Six: Rousseau and Intellectual History

Chapter 14: Rousseau in Thai Constitutionalism by Ployjai Pintobtang

Chapter 15: Rousseau in Meiji Japan: the impact of French Republicanism and Nakae Chômin by Eddy Dufourmont

Conclusion

Editors: Rousseau Contra Popper. (Conclusion)

O autorze

Denis Bosseau is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Owen Brown is an independent scholar based in Oxford, UK.

Neal Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Ployjai Pintobtang is a Lecturer in the department of Government, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Blurb

“This highly innovative and wide-ranging collection 'reloads' Rousseau as a resource for current social and political theory, covering both well-known topics and less familiar ones.”

—William Outhwaite, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK

“This scintillating volume on Rousseau—with its internationally divergent and original chapters—confronts the realities of the neo-liberal counterrevolution and the ways in which its understanding of ‘freedom’ constitute a danger for a good life of all and the survival of the planet.”

—Heinz Sünker, Rudolf Carnap Senior Professor, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany

“We are living through a crisis of democracy, during which it is necessary not to go back to Rousseau but to go forward to Rousseau and to explore the ways in which his thought can illuminate our contemporary dilemmas. The interdisciplinary focus and breadth of this stimulating collection will be of great help in this endeavour.”

—Andy Kilmister, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Oxford Brookes University, UK

This book demonstrates that Rousseau offers a distinctive critical voice which is worthy of listening to. Rousseau is shown to target not merely social ‘injustices’, but the very dynamics central to the ‘form of life’ itself. As such we are able to contemplate, and engage in, a more foundational form of social critique. We contend that by returning to Rousseau, both as a theorist in his own right, and as an interlocutor with the contemporary literature within radical political and social philosophy, we can see both the circumscribed nature of contemporary discussion, and the true importance of Rousseau’s thought. In summary, Rousseau remains a figure of vital importance across disciplines and it is high time for an edited volume which connects insights centring his thought and impact today.

Denis Bosseau is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Owen Brown is an independent scholar based in Oxford, UK.

Neal Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Ployjai Pintobtang is a Lecturer in the department of Government, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.