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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874518369
A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:89016671
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:89016671
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611682885
Based on his doctrine of natural goodness, Rousseau intended the Confessions as a testing ground to explore his belief that, as Christopher Kelly writes, "people are to be measured by the depth and nature of their feelings." Re-created here in a meticulously documented new translation based on the definitive Pléiade edition, the work represents Rousseau's attempt to forge connections among his beliefs, his feelings, and his life. More than a "behind-the-scenes look at the private life of a public man," Kelly writes, "the Confessions is at the center of Rousseau's philosophical enterprise."
Author : Paul J. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351901369
As he demonstrates that narratives of seduction function as a master plot for French literature in the eighteenth century, Paul Young argues that the prevalence of this trope was a reaction to a dominant cultural discourse that coded the novel and the new practice of solitary reading as dangerous, seductive practices. Situating his study in the context of paintings, educational manuals, and criticism that caution against the act of reading, Young considers both canonical and lesser-known works by authors that include Rousseau, Sade, Bastide, Laclos, Crébillon fils, and the writers of two widely read libertine novels. How these authors responded to a cultural climate that viewed literature, and especially the novel, as seductive, sheds light on the perils and pleasures of authorship, the ways in which texts interact with the larger cultural discourse, and what eighteenth-century texts tell us about the dangers of reading or writing. Ultimately, Young argues, the seduction not in the text, but by the text raises questions about the nature of pleasure in eighteenth-century French literature and culture.
Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107511606
If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as Kant, considered Rousseau to be 'the Newton of the moral world', as he was the first philosopher to draw attention to the basic dignity of human nature. The Social Contract has never ceased to be read and debated in the 250 years since its publication. Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. David Lay Williams offers readers a chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract, squarely confronting these interpretive obstacles. The book also features a special extended appendix dedicated to outlining Rousseau's famous conception of the general will, which has been the object of controversy since the Social Contract's publication in 1762.
Author : E. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230601680
In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.
Author : Fayçal Falaky,Reginald McGinnis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684483402
This collection of essays brings together different critical perspectives on play in eighteenth-century France. From dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries to the ludic nature of narrative and theatrical performance, this volume offers a new outlook on how play was used to represent and reimagine the world.
Author : R. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137010629
Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative gender identity, but also normative familial and kinship relations.
Author : Herman Bavinck,John Bolt
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801032417
The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction examines four postmodern texts whose authors play with the material conventions of "the book": Joseph McElroy's Plus (1977), Carole Maso's AVA (1993), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE (1982), and Steve Tomasula's VAS (2003). By demonstrating how each of these works calls for an affirmative engagement with literature, Flore Chevaillier explores a centrally important issue in the criticism of contemporary fiction. Critics have claimed that experimental literature, in its disruption of conventional story-telling and language uses, resists literary and social customs. While this account is accurate, it stresses what experimental texts respond to more than what they offer. This book proposes a counter-view to this emphasis on the strictly privative character of innovative fictions by examining experimental works' positive ideas and affects, as well as readers' engagement in the formal pleasure of experimentations with image, print, sound, page, orthography, and syntax. Elaborating an erotics of recent innovative literature implies that we engage in the formal pleasure of its experimentations with signifying techniques and with the materiality of their medium. Such engagement provokes a fusion of the reader's senses and the textual material, which invites a redefinition of corporeality as a kind of textual practice.
Author : Istvan Hont
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674286191
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.
Author : Maria DiBattista,Emily O. Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107028104
A historical overview of autobiography from the works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau to the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras.
Author : Ida Koivisto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192667908
Transparency has become a new norm. States, international organizations, and even private businesses have sought to bolster their legitimacy by invoking transparency in their activities. This growth in popularity was made possible through two interconnected trends: the idea that transparency is inherently good, and that the actual meaning of the term is becoming harder and harder to pin down. Thus far, this has remained undertheorized. The Transparency Paradox is an insightful account of the hidden logic of the ideal of transparency and its legal manifestations. It shows how transparency is a covertly conflicted ideal. The book argues that counter to popular understanding, truth and legitimacy cannot but form a problematic trade-off in transparency practices.
Author : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197526866
"Philosophies of Gratitude is a study of gratitude as a philosophical concept. It explores what past philosophers from Aristotle to Kant have said about gratitude, and examines what role the idea of gratitude has played in their philosophies. It also looks at the three primary ways we think about gratitude - as an emotion we feel in response to a gift or benefit, as an act we perform to express our thankfulness, and as a virtuous disposition in which we are and feel ready to be grateful to the world we inhabit. Like love and trust, gratitude is a way we react to other people in our lives, sometimes for who they are (lovable or trustworthy) and sometimes for what they do (act benevolently towards us). It is a way we feel and act towards others. It is, in other words, a primary way we situate ourselves in relationships. Philosophies of Gratitude examines the key historical moments when gratitude was an important philosophical concept - in classical antiquity, in the early modern era, and in the Enlightenment - in order to discover what gratitude meant for those who produced our fundamental Western notions of ethics. It then examines the forms gratitude assumes - as a feeling, an act, a disposition - in order to discern what role our emotions play in our ethical responses to the world. Finally, it examines what we can say about ingratitude as a response that usually strikes us as base, in other words, as a moment when a human being fails to act morally, but also as a response that sometimes indicates a deeper kind of ethical stand against injustice"--
Author : Ezra Tawil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812250374
Literature, American Style finds early U.S. authors self-consciously imitating European literary forms even as they claimed radical originality. The notion of style helped them manage this peculiar contradiction. It was their American use of style, they claimed, that marked their departure from literary precedents.