Thinking with Rousseau : from Machiavelli to Schmitt / edited by Helena Rosenblatt and Paul Schweigert

Published:: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Physical Description:: xi, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Rosenblatt, Helena, 1961- and Schweigert, Paul

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Rousseau and Machiavelli: Two Interpretations of Republicanism / Maurizio Viroli -- 2.Rousseau and Montaigne: From Enthusiasm to Equanimity / James Miller -- 3.Rousseau and Hobbes: The Hobbesianism of Rousseau / Richard Tuck -- 4.Rousseau and Montesquieu / J. Kent Wright -- 5.Rousseau and Mendelssohn: "Enraptured Reason," Rousseau's Presence in Moses Mendelssohn's Thought / David Sorkin -- 6.Rousseau and Smith: On Sympathy as a First Principle / Pierre Force -- 7.Rousseau and A.L. Thomas / Anthony La Vopa -- 8.Rousseau and d'Holbach: The Revolutionary Implications of la philosophic anti-Theresienne / Jonathan Israel -- 9.Rousseau and Diderot / Joanna Stalnaker -- 10.Rousseau and Kant: Rousseau's Kantian Legacy / Richard Velkley -- 11.Rousseau and Wollstonecraft: Solitary Walkers / Barbara Taylor -- 12.Rousseau and Madame de Stael: A Surprising Dialogue / Aurelian Craiutu -- 13.Rousseau and Proudhon: Human Nature, Property, and the Social Contract / K. Steven Vincent -- 14.Rousseau and Marx: On Human Fulfillment / Jerrold Seigel -- 15.Rousseau and Schmitt: Sovereigns and Dictators / David Bates.

Summary:

Although indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual place within that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed. 'Thinking with Rousseau' reconsiders his contribution to this tradition through a series of essays exploring the relationship between Rousseau and other "great thinkers". Ranging from 'Rousseau and Machiavelli' to 'Rousseau and Schmitt', this volume focuses on the kind of intricate work that intellectuals do when they read each other and grapple with one another's ideas. This approach is very helpful in explaining how old ideas are transformed and/or transmitted and new ones are generated. Rousseau himself was a master at appropriating the ideas of others, while simultaneously subverting them, and as the essays in this volume vividly demonstrate, the resulting ambivalences and paradoxes in his thought were creatively mined by others.

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History

ISBN:

9781107105768 hardcover
1107105765 hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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