Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment

AvDenise Schaeffer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer’s analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-12-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271062099

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Denise Schaeffer is Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross.

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“Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment is a splendid book. Denise Schaeffer treats an enormously complex question in a way that is simple, elegant, and altogether free of jargon. She first shows how each stage of Emile’s education is always double—meant seriously, but also designed to prepare for its own supersession—and then reveals this educational sequence also at work in Rousseau’s education of his reader. The quite considerable achievement of Schaeffer’s book is to employ the same sequence in her own writing, where the straightforward political issue with which she begins is gradually deepened and gives way to the question of what it is about the human soul that requires this sort of indirect education. Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment will be regularly read by Rousseau scholars and advanced students, but owing to the accessibility, and really the beauty, of its prose, it will inevitably find its way to a broader audience of students of philosophy and political theory at every level.”—Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Rousseau’s WorksIntroduction1Judgment and the Standard of Nature2Learning to Move: The Body, the Senses, and the Foundations of Judgment3Books and Experience in the Education of Judgment4Judgment and Pity5Piety and Authority6Judgment, Love, and Illusion7Judgment and the Possibility of Partial Detachment8Judgment and CitizenshipNotesIndex