Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment write by Graeme Garrard. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrard presents the first book-length case that shows Rousseau as the pivotal figure in the emergence of Counter-Enlightenment thought. Viewed in the context in which he actually lived and wrote—from the middle of the eighteenth century to his death in 1778—it is apparent that Rousseau categorically rejected the Enlightenment "republic of letters" in favor of his own "republic of virtue." The philosophes, placing faith in reason and natural human sociability and subjecting religion to systematic criticism and doubt, naively minimized the deep tensions and complexities of collective life and the power disintegrative forces posed to social order. Rousseau believed that the ever precarious social order could only be achieved artificially, by manufacturing "sentiments of sociability," reshaping individuals to identify with common interests instead of their own selfish interests.
Counter-Enlightenments
Counter-Enlightenments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Counter-Enlightenments write by Graeme Garrard. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Counter-Enlightenments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the Counter-Enlightenment, from its origins in Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences through to contemporary debates about postmodernism and the relationship between liberalism and Enlightenment.
Against Rousseau
Against Rousseau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Rousseau write by Joseph Marie comte de Maistre. This book was released on 1996. Against Rousseau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A translation of Joseph De Maistre's critique of Rousseau providing a historical forum for understanding the intellectual qualities of the counter-revolution from 1792 to 1797. Obviously, De Maistre's arguments were not successful, but they are valuable in terms of exploring Rousseau's ideologies, in particular his belief in the natural goodness of man and popular sovereignty. Although the two men are usually seen as polar opposites, De Maistre's critique reveals ambiguities that make him seem surprisingly more similar than he would have admitted. Lebrun (history, U. of Manitoba) provides a qualitative introduction. Canadian card order number C95-900-929-9. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Enemies of the Enlightenment
Enemies of the Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enemies of the Enlightenment write by Darrin M. McMahon. This book was released on 2002. Enemies of the Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Darrin M. McMahon shows that well before the French Revolution, enemies of the Enlightenment were warning that the secular thrust of modern philosophy would give way to horrors of an unprecedented kind. Greeting 1789, in turn, as the realization of their worst fears, they fought the Revolution from its onset, profoundly affecting its subsequent course. The radicalization - and violence - of the Revolution was as much the product of militant resistance as any inherent logic."--BOOK JACKET.
Mass Enlightenment
Mass Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mass Enlightenment write by Julia Simon. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Mass Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the writings of the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School as a framework, this book uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism as manifested in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot.
