Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity

Mark Hulliung (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-6244-8 (ISBN)

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This volume seeks to capture Jean-Jacques Rousseau's astonishing contribution to our understanding of the dilemmas of modernity. For the contributors to this book Rousseau is present as well as past, because he was so modern and yet so ambivalent about modernity, a position with which we are quite familiar. Highlighted in this volume is the contention that Rousseau set the stage for many discussions of the good and bad of modernity.

Previous efforts to deal with Rousseau and modernity have suffered from myopia. In the nineteenth century the Romantics claimed Rousseau as one of their own, pulling him out of his historical context, ignoring his full scale immersion in the debates of the French Enlightenment. In the twentieth century commentators have read into Rousseau the ahistorical and present-minded Cold War theme of "Rousseau the totalitarian."

In this volume Rousseau is treated as a person of his age but also as someone who speaks to us today. The topics covered range from feminism, music, science, and political theory, to updating the classics, and to the search for and limitations to the quest for self-knowledge. Few if any figures can compete with Rousseau when it comes to forcing us to face up to the price we pay for "progress."

Mark Hulliung is Richard Koret Professor of the History of Ideas at Brandeis University, USA. He is the author of The Autocritique of Enlightenment, available from Transaction.

Introduction: Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity
Mark Hulliung

Part One: Before and After Vincennes

1 Rousseau's Chemical Apprenticeship
Christopher Kelly

Part Two: Citoyens and Citoyennes

2 Rousseau's Response to the Social Contract Tradition
Mark Hulliung

3 Over Her Dead Body: Voila La Citoyenne?
Claudia Schaler

Part Three: Sound and Music

4 How to Be Modern in Music: Rousseau between Greece, Italy, and Vienna
Michael O'Dea
5 Listening in Rousseau's Auditory World: Sound, Noise, and Music
Julia Simon

Part Four: Ancients and Moderns

6 Rousseau, Fenelon, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns
Patrick Riley
7 Stoicism for Rousseau and Other Beleaguered Moderns
Mark Hulliung

Part Five: The Modern Predicament

8 Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Liberal Modernity
Shefali Misra
9 The Unconditional Self
Claude Habib

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Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4128-6244-2 / 1412862442
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-6244-8 / 9781412862448
Zustand	Neuware