The Confessions And Correspondence Including The Letters To Malesherbes
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The Confessions and Correspondence Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0874518369 |
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A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.
The Confessions and Correspondence Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781611682885 |
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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."
Seducing the Eighteenth Century French Reader
Author | : Paul J. Young |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351901369 |
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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.
Rousseau s Social Contract
Author | : David Lay Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-01-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107511606 |
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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.
Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn
Author | : E. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780230601680 |
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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.
Modes of Play in Eighteenth Century France
Author | : Fayçal Falaky,Reginald McGinnis |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781684483402 |
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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.
Rousseau in Drag
Author | : R. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-01-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781137010629 |
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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.
Politics in Commercial Society
Author | : Istvan Hont |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674286191 |
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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.