Public Vision, Private Lives
Subtitle: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-Century Democracy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 17, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780195125542
First sentence: Insofar as there is something we care to call Western consciousness, there is a pattern of thought etched on to it that is seemingly ineluctable.
Description: This text invites us to reflect on the nature and place of public and private in the work of Rousseau and, more generally in society. It explores the conflicts with which Rousseau wrestled - prerogatives and obligations to self, friends family, civic life, and to humanity.