Rousseau and revolution
By: edited by Holger Ross Lauritsen and Mikkel Thorup
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781441128973
Subjects: Revolutions; Political science; Democracy; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Rousseau mistrusts revolutions : Rousseau's paradoxical conservatism / Blaise Bachofen; title: The general will and national consciousness : radical requirements of democratic legitimacy in the writing of Rousseau and Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon; title: Rousseau and the Terror : a reassessment / Julian Bourg; title: Arbitrariness and freedom : Hegel on Rousseau and revolution / Angelica Nuzzo; title: Reverse revolution : the paradox of Rousseau's authorship / Fayal Falaky; title: The general will between conservation and revolution / Holger Ross Lauritsen; title: Rousseau and revolution in the making of a modern political culture : Denmark 1750-1850 / Bertel Nygaard; title: Creation, destruction and continuity of order / Christiane Mossin; title: Rousseau and the revolutions of the earth : remarks on a natural metaphor / Antoine Hatzenberger; title: The revolutionary return of the orator : public space and the spoken word in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Masano Yamashita; title: Rousseau, the revolution and the Republic / James Swenson.