Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary
ISBN-10
0803945876
ISBN-13
9780803945876
Series
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category
Political Science
Language
English
Published
1994-05-23
Publisher
SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Author
Tracy B. Strong

Description

This book examines the philosophy of Rousseau and its contribution to our understanding of modernity. Strong notes that Rousseau has been associated with almost every school of thought and political movement of Western modernity - why is it that he has been read so divergently? The author suggests that Rousseau `gives us...our language for politics and personhood...Rousseau is not the whole story of modernity, but he is, in ways that others around and before him were not, modern.'

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