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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798280803321

Titolo

Rousseau between nature and culture : philosophy, literature, and politics / / edited by Anne Deneys-Tunney and Yves Charles Zarka ; in collaboration with Karen Santos da Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

3-11-045667-2

3-11-045718-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Culture & conflict, , 2194-7104 ; ; volume 8

Classificazione

CF 7517

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Nature in literature

Nature and civilization

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

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Editions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Technology: Between Nature and Anti-Nature -- Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss's "Master" / Guenancia, Pierre -- Rousseau and the Authority of Nature / Knee, Philip -- Nature as Blind Space / Lojkine, Stéphane -- Rousseau and Technology: The Invention of a New Ecological Paradigm / Deneys-Tunney, Anne -- Rousseau and "The Mechanical Life" / Yamashita, Masano -- II. Politics and Ethics: Beyond the Nature/Culture Polarity -- Rousseau's Ethical Freedom / Audi, Paul -- Remarks on Rousseau's Dictatorship: Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt / Pasquino, Pasquale -- Politics and Religion in the Social Contract / Critchley, Simon -- Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending Nature/Culture Dualism / Morgenstern, Mira -- Rousseau and the Sovereignty of the People / Zarka, Yves Charles -- III. The Philosophical Novel: Culture as Nature's Supplement -- Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse / Martin, Christophe -- Recomposing the Diffracted Text: Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book of Nature / Nouis, Lucien -- Nature, Culture, and the Social Contract: Emile's point of view / L'Aminot, Tanguy -- Contributors -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and culture. In this, Rousseau is our true contemporary.