Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions, Band 48) - Softcover

Wokler, Robert

 
9780192801982: Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions, Band 48)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192801988 ISBN 13: 9780192801982
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2001

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One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's life and works, Robert Wolker shows how his philosophy of history, his theories of music and politics, his fiction, educational, and religious writings, and even his botany, were all inspired by revolutionary ideals of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. He explains how, in regressing to classical republicanism, ancient mythology, direct communication with God, and solitude, Rousseau anticipated some post-modernist rejections of the Enlightenment as well.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Wokler is based at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and the Special Program in the Humanities.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192801988
ISBN 13 
9780192801982
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Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
188
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