Encountering Tragedy 
Subtitle: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801435966
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Political science & theory; Politics/International Relations; Democracy; Political Theory; Philosophy; Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1712-1; Political; 1712-1778; Contributions in political sci; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
First sentence: Rousseau's contributions to western political thought, more specifically to democratic thought, are legion.
Description: "Johnston draws on selected texts in Rousseau's corpus - including the underappreciated tracts on Poland and Corsica - to interpret Rousseau first and foremost as an anatomist and architect of order.

Encountering Tragedy contests Rousseau's munificent ontological presumptions, probes the necessary and disturbing fictions of the Founding, reconfigures the relationship between the multifarious arts of government and the exercise of sovereignty, and delineates the constitutive role of enmity in his virtuous republic.

Moreover, the book offers a critical reading of Rousseau's gender politics, and dissects the attractions and dangers of both his patriotic sensibility and his morality-based politics."--BOOK JACKET.