Garrard Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment

A Republican Critique of the Philosophes
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8743-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Social and Political Thought

Sees Rousseau as the father of Counter-Enlightenment thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrard, Graeme

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 1. The Enlightenment Republic of Letters
The Party of Humanity
The Virtue of Selfish Sociability
2. Philosophe, Madman, Revolutionary, God: The Many Faces of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Introduction
Rousseau and the Philosophes
The Invention of the "Revolutionary" Rousseau
Conclusion
3. Unsociable Man: Rousseau’s Critique of Enlightenment
Social Thought
Introduction
From Contract to Community
Natural Order, Social Disorder
Conclusion
4. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment Republic of Virtue
Introduction
Extending amour-propre
Statecraft as Soulcraft
Rousseau’s "Manly" Republic
Conclusion 5. On the Utility of Religion
Introduction
The Religious Basis of Morality
The Union of Church and State
6. Dare to Be Ignorant!
Introduction
Messieurs de l’Encyclopédie
"A Sweet and Precious Ignorance"
The Light Within
Conclusion
7. The Worst of All Possible Worlds
The Cautious Optimism of the Philosophes
Rousseau’s Optimism about the Past
Rousseau’s Pessimism about the Future
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Graeme Garrard is Lecturer in Political Philosophy and European Thought at Cardiff University.