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Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction No.48
出版社： Oxford University Press
書林書號：
30195424
作者：
Wokler, Robert
定價：
476
會員價：
$452
ISBN：
9780192801982
出版年份：
2001
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
188
  • 本書介紹
One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike.

In this study of Rousseau's life and works Robert Wokler shows how his philosophy of history, his theories of music and politics, his fiction, educational and religious writings, and even his botany, were all inspired by visionary ideals of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. He explains how, in regressing to classical republicanism, ancient mythology, direct communion with God, and solitude, Rousseau anticipated some post-modernist rejections of the Enlightenment
as well.

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