Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Politics of the Ordinary

AvTracy B. Strong

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-04-08
Mått:150 x 225 x 17 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Modernity and Political Thought
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742521438

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Tracy B. Strong is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.

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Tracy Strong's book is as much an elegant and compelling evocation of Rousseau himself, or of his spirit, as it is a very fine analysis of the books and the ideas. This makes it a critically important achievement, since that spirit or frame of mind has had more to do with whatever common world and unresolved problems we still share than the work of any other modern. This book is an extraordinary acknowledgement of Rousseau and od how Rousseau wanted to be read, and thereby, in a strikingly original and lucid way, helps make available to us the problem of a 'common humanity,' as Rousseau saw it.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Fear of the AuthorChapter 2 Rousseau and the Experience of OthersChapter 3 The General Will and the Scandal of PoliticsChapter 4 The Education of an Ordinary ManChapter 5 The Ends of Politics