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Record Nr.

UNINA9910147100103321

Autore

Qvortrup Mads

Titolo

The political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the impossibility of reason / / Mads H. Qvortrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Manchester University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-78170-049-4

1-280-73453-1

9786610734535

1-84779-084-4

1-4237-0656-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 135 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

320/.092

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The politics of the soul: the life and times of Jean-Jacques Rousseau --2. The disenchantment of the world --3. Checks, balances and popular participation: Rousseau as a constitutionalist --4. A civic profession of faith: Rousseau's and nationalism --5. The last of the ancients the first of the moderns? --6. Epilogue: in the beginning was song --Chronology of Rousseau's life (1712-78) --Bibliography --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive analysis of Rousseau's political philosophy for a generation, this timely book rejects the authoritarian reading of Rousseau and establishes him as an anti-revolutionary closer to Burke than to Robespierre.