The Cambridge companion to Rousseau / edited by Patrick Riley.
| Call Number | 194 |
| Title | The Cambridge companion to Rousseau / edited by Patrick Riley. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 453 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge companions to philosophy |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction: life and works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) / Patrick Riley -- A general overview / George Armstrong Kelly -- Rousseau, Voltaire, and the revenge of Pascal / Mark Hulliung -- Rousseau, Fénelon, and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns / Patrick Riley -- Rousseau's political philosophy: stoic and Augustinian origins / Christopher Brooke -- Rousseau's general will / Patrick Riley -- Rousseau's images of authority (especially in La Nouvelle Héloïse) / Judith N. Shklar -- The religious thought / Victor Gourevitch -- Émile: learning to be men, women, and citizens / Geraint Parry -- Émile: nature and the education of Sophie / Susan Meld Shell -- Rousseau's Confessions / Christopher Kelly -- Music, politics, theatre, and representation in Rousseau / C.N. Dugan and Tracy B. Strong -- The motto Vitam impendere vero and the question of lying / Jean Starobinski -- Rousseau's The levite of Ephraïm: synthesis within a "minor" walk / Thomas Kavanagh -- Ancient postmodernism in the philosophy of Rousseau / Robert Wokler. |
| Summary | Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater. |
| Added Author | Riley, Patrick, 1941- editor. |
| Subject | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. |
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| Summary | Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction: life and works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) / Patrick Riley -- A general overview / George Armstrong Kelly -- Rousseau, Voltaire, and the revenge of Pascal / Mark Hulliung -- Rousseau, Fénelon, and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns / Patrick Riley -- Rousseau's political philosophy: stoic and Augustinian origins / Christopher Brooke -- Rousseau's general will / Patrick Riley -- Rousseau's images of authority (especially in La Nouvelle Héloïse) / Judith N. Shklar -- The religious thought / Victor Gourevitch -- Émile: learning to be men, women, and citizens / Geraint Parry -- Émile: nature and the education of Sophie / Susan Meld Shell -- Rousseau's Confessions / Christopher Kelly -- Music, politics, theatre, and representation in Rousseau / C.N. Dugan and Tracy B. Strong -- The motto Vitam impendere vero and the question of lying / Jean Starobinski -- Rousseau's The levite of Ephraïm: synthesis within a "minor" walk / Thomas Kavanagh -- Ancient postmodernism in the philosophy of Rousseau / Robert Wokler. |
| Subject | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. |
| Multimedia |