Engaging with Rousseau
Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
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Engaging with Rousseau
Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
About this book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been cast as a champion of Enlightenment and a beacon of Romanticism, a father figure of radical revolutionaries and totalitarian dictators alike, an inventor of the modern notion of the self, and an advocate of stern ancient republicanism. Engaging with Rousseau treats his writings as an enduring topic of debate, examining the diverse responses they have attracted from the Enlightenment to the present. Such notions as the general will were, for example, refracted through very different prisms during the struggle for independence in Latin America and in social conflicts in Eastern Europe, or modified by thinkers from Kant to contemporary political theorists. Beyond Rousseau's ideas, his public image too travelled around the world. This book examines engagement with Rousseau's works as well as with his self-fashioning; especially in turbulent times, his defiant public identity and his call for regeneration were admired or despised by intellectuals and political agents.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the texts and references
- 1 ‘A lover of peace more than liberty’?: The Genevan rejection of Rousseau’s politics
- 2 Adrastus versus Diogenes: Frederick the Great and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on self-love
- 3 Sources of evil or seeds of the good?: Rousseau and Kant on needs, the arts, and the sciences
- 4 Rousseau and French liberalism, 1789–1870
- 5 Rousseau and the redistributive republic: Nineteenth-century French interpretations
- 6 Echoes of the Social Contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770–1825
- 7 Reading Rousseau in Spanish America during the wars of independence (1808–1826)
- 8 ‘The porch to a collectivism as absolute as the mind of man has ever conceived’: Rousseau scholarship in Britain from the Great War to the Cold War
- 9 Rousseau at Harvard: John Rawls and Judith Shklar on realistic utopia
- 10 Rousseau’s dilemma
- 11 The depths of recognition: The legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Bibliography
- Index