Title: The Rousseauian mind /
Authors: Grace, Eve; Kelly, Christopher, 1950-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
Abstract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is a major figure in Western Philosophy and is one of the most widely read and studied political philosophers of all time. His writings range from abstract works such as On the Social Contract to literary masterpieces such as The Reveries of the Solitary Walker as well as immensely popular novels and operas. The Rousseauian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers: The predecessors and contemporaries to Rousseau's work; The major texts of the 'system'; Autobiographical texts including Confessions, Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Dialogues; Rousseau's political science; The successors to Rousseau's work; Rousseau applied today. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Rousseau's work is central to the study of political philosophy, the Enlightenment, French studies, the history of philosophy and political theory.
Contents: Rousseau's Socratic "sentimentalism" / Eve Grace -- Rousseau's debt to Plutarch / Rebecca Kingston -- Rethinking the source of evil in Rousseau's Confessions / Wing Kwan Anselm Lam -- Rousseau and Machiavelli / Vickie B. Sullivan -- "Men as they are and laws as they can be" : legitimacy and the state of nature in Rousseau and Hobbes / Susan Meld Shell -- John Locke's influence on Rousseau / Lee Ward -- Rousseau and Leibniz : genealogy vs. theodicy / Christophe Litunn -- Rousseau and Fénelon / Ryan Patrick Hanley -- Virtue and the ancient city : Rousseau's debt to Montesquieu / Andrea Radasanu -- Rousseau and Diderot : materialism and its discontents / Céline Spector -- Rousseau and Hume : the philosophical quarrel / Dennis C. Rasmussen -- Rousseau and Adam Smith on sincerity and authenticity / John McHugh -- How would Rousseau have answered the Scots? / Mark Hulliung -- The discourse on the sciences and arts / Jeff J.S. Black -- Discourse on the origin of inequality / Christopher Kelly -- Emile; or on education / John T. Scott -- The social contract / Matthew C. Simpson -- Rousseau's Confessions : a pattern for living / Laura K. Field -- Reflecting on the outlaw : Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques in light of the Greek tragedians / Jean-François Perrin -- To walk, to dream, to philosophize / Pierre Manent -- Rousseau's responses to human progress / Timothy O'Hagan -- Rousseau and sciences / Christophe Van Staen -- From nature to society / Daniel Cullen -- Moral motivation and rhetoric / Denise Schaeffer -- Contradictions : thought at risk / Claude Habib -- On the naturalness of friendship and the family / John Warner -- Rousseau on music : a case of nature vs. nurture / Jacqueline Waeber -- Inequality / Robin Douglass -- Cosmopolitanism versus patriotism / Matthew D. Mendham -- Rousseau's political science / Joseph Reisert -- Rousseau's political economy / Geneviève Rousselière -- Rousseau's legislative reveries / Pamela K. Jensen -- Rousseau's place in the civil-religion tradition / Ronald Beiner -- The politcal possibilities of the faith of the Savoyard Vicar / Kimberley J. Burns -- Who needs civil religion? / Mira Morgenstern -- Rousseau and Kant : imitation, genius, and scandal / Jeremiah Alberg -- Self-unity, culture, and aesthetic education : prolegomena to Schiller's Rousseauian mind / Richard Velkley -- The economics of philosophical anthropology : Hegel versus Rousseau / Paul A. Cantor -- Rousseau and Tocqueville / Matthew W. Maguire -- Rousseau, Derrida, and imitative novelty / Wang Wei -- Rousseau and feminism / Eileen Hunt Botting -- Rousseau and public intellectuals / Jonathan Marks -- Rousseau and environmentalism / Zev Trachtenberg -- External relations, international relations : Rousseau on war and the law of war / Blaise Bachofen.