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020 _a9780192801982
082 _a848.509 WOK
100 _aWokler, Robert
245 _aRousseau : A Very Short Introduction
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2001
300 _a171
440 _aVery Short Introductions
520 _aRousseau: A Very Short Introduction examines the role of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the European Enlightenment, and his critique of the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization. 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. This VSI explains how, in embracing classical republicanism, ancient mythology, direct communion with God, the wildness of nature and solitude, Rousseau anticipated some post-modernist rejections of the Enlightenment.
650 _aPolitical Philosophy
650 _aSocial Philosophy
650 _aPolitical Theory
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