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27Cambridge companion to Rousseau's Social contract (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2023.Introduction -- "Every Legitimate Government is Republican": Rousseau's Debt to and Departure from Montesquieu on Republicanism -- What if There is no Legislator? Rousseau's History of the Government of Geneva -- Rousseau's Republican Citizenship: The Moral Psychology of The Social Contract -- Rousseau's negative liberty: Themes of domination and skepticism in The Social Contract -- Rousseau's Ancient Ends of Legislation: Liberty, Equality (& Fraternity) -- Property and Possession in Rousseau's …Read more
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Jaggar, A. 245 Jeffreys, S. 58 Johnson, D. 182 Kamuf, P. 169, 173In Caroline Ramazanoglu (ed.), Up against Foucault: explorations of some tensions between Foucault and feminism, Routledge. pp. 265. 1993.
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13Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings (edited book)Broadview Press. 2018.This classroom edition includes _On the Social Contract_, the _Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts_, the _Discourse on the Origins of Inequality_, and the Preface to _Narcissus_. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors’ introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau’s life and historical situatio…Read more
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1The Conversion of EnlightenmentDissertation, Harvard University. 1999.The dissertation is a close reading of Pascal, Rousseau, and Tocqueville's reflections on theology, politics, and modernity. The chapter on Pascal posits a fissure within Christian thought that opens the possibility of a purely human incarnation within history through the imaginary configuration of text, and the Presentation of Christianity as faith set radically and inflexibly against human activity and attachment in and through the world. Rousseau realizes the possibility of historical incarna…Read more
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51The conversion of imagination: from Pascal through Rousseau to TocquevilleHarvard University Press. 2006.Pascal, turning Augustinianism inside out, radically expanded the powers of imagination implicit in the work of Montaigne and Descartes, and made imagination ...
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Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |