The political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : : the impossibility of reason / / Mads H. Qvortrup.
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.
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 135 pages) :; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.