The challenge of Rousseau /
Written by prominent scholars of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, this collection celebrates the 300th anniversary of Rousseau's birth and the 250th anniversary of the publication of Emile. The depth and systematic character of Rousseau's thought was recognized almost immediately b...
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly
- Part I. Politics and Economics: 1. Rousseau and the illustrious Montesquieu / Christopher Kelly; 2. Political economy and individual liberty / Ryan Patrick Hanley
- Part II. Science and Epistemology: 3. The presence of sciences in Rousseau's trajectory and works / Bruno Bernardi and Bernadette Bensaud-Vincent; 4. Epistemology and political perception in the case of Rousseau / Terence Marshall
- Part III. The Modern or Classical, Theological or Philosophical, Foundations of Rousseau's System: 5. On the intention of Rousseau / Leo Strauss; 6. On Strauss on Rousseau / Victor Gourevitch; 7. Built on sand: moral law in Rousseau's Second Discourse / Eve Grace; 8. Rousseau and Pascal / Matthew W. Maguire
- Part IV. Rousseau as Educator and Legislator: 9. The measure of the possible: imagination in Rousseau's philosophical pedagogy / Richard Velkley; 10.dt Rousseau's French revolution / Pamela K. Jensen; 11. Rousseau's challenge to Locke (and to us) / Jonathan Marks; 12. Stalking Puer Robustus: Hobbes and Rousseau on the origin of human malice / Susan Meld Shell
- Part V. Unease, Happiness, and Death: 13. Rousseau's unease with Locke's uneasiness / John T. Scott; 14. Montaigne and Rousseau: some reflections / Pierre Manent, translated by Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace.
