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The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's
distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato,
Complete Works . A number of new or expanded footnotes are also
included along with an updated bibliography.
Surmontant une opposition souvent outree entre les deux auteurs, ce
volume reevalue l'heritage de la pensee de Locke chez Rousseau,
dans tous les domaines de sa philosophie (identite personnelle,
epistemologie, medecine, morale, pedagogie, economie, politique).
Au-dela de l'histoire intellectuelle, l'ouvrage met en lumiere le
dialogue critique fecond que Rousseau entretient avec Locke, quitte
a identifier les distorsions que le Citoyen de Geneve fait subir a
son predecesseur. Tout en etablissant la dette de l'auteur d'Emile
a l'egard du 'sage Locke', le volume discerne la pertinence des
objections que Rousseau lui adresse en operant un retour a la
lettre de la philosophie de Locke. En quel sens Rousseau a-t-il
etabli sa philosophie sur des 'principes communs' a ceux de Locke ?
Quelle subversion fait-il subir a l'Essai concernant l'entendement
humain ou aux Pensees sur l'education ? Quels sont les points
aveugles de la philosophie de Locke que la critique rousseauiste
permet de mettre en lumiere et, a l'inverse, les limites de la
critique rousseauiste de Locke ? Tels sont les axes de cet ouvrage
qui reunit des specialistes, en philosophie et en litterature, de
Rousseau et de Locke. -- Transcending an often outraged opposition
between the two authors, this volume reassesses the legacy of
Locke's thought in that of Rousseau, in all the areas of his
philosophy (personal identity, epistemology, medicine, morality,
pedagogy, economics, politics). Beyond an intellectual history,
this collected volume highlights the fruitful critical dialogue
that Rousseau maintains with Locke, while identifying the ways in
which the Citizen of Geneva distorted his predecessor's thought.
While establishing the author of Emile's debt to the 'sage Locke',
the volume also discerns the relevance of Rousseau's objections to
Lockian philosophy. In what sense did Rousseau establish his own
philosophy on 'common principles' to those of Locke? How does he
subvert the Essay Concerning Human Understanding or the Thoughts
Concerning Education? What are the blind spots in Locke's
philosophy that Rousseau highlights and, conversely, the limits of
Rousseau's criticism of Locke? These are the main aspects of this
volume, which brings together scholars in philosophy and
literature, on Rousseau and Locke.
Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and
sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of
Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and
Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published in
every area of philosophy, from the theory of vision to theories of
political resistance, from the philosophy of language to accounts
of ways of governing the passions. The philosophers of
eighteenth-century Britain were enormously influential, in France,
in Italy, in Germany, and in America. Their ideas and arguments
remain a powerful presence in philosophy three centuries later.
This Oxford Handbook is the first book ever to provide
comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing
in Britain in the eighteenth century. It provides accounts of the
writings of all the major figures, but also puts those figures in
the context provided by a host of writers less well known today.
The book has five principal sections: 'Logic and Metaphysics', 'The
Passions', 'Morals', 'Criticism', and 'Politics'. Each section
comprises four chapters, providing detailed coverage of all of the
important aspects of its subject matter. There is also an
introductory section, with chapters on the general character of
philosophizing in eighteenth-century Britain, and a concluding
section on the important question of the relation at this time
between philosophy and religion. The authors of the chapters are
experts in their fields. They include philosophers, historians,
political theorists, and literary critics, and they teach in
colleges and universities in Britain, in Europe, and in North
America.
In WHY POLITICAL LIBERALISM?, Paul Weithman offers a fresh,
rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for
taking his so-called "political turn". Weithman takes Rawls at his
word that justice as fairness was recast as a form of political
liberalism because of an inconsistency Rawls found in his early
treatment of social stability. He argues that the inconsistency is
best seen by identifying the threats to stability with which the
early Rawls was concerned. One of those threats, often overlooked
by Rawls's readers, is the threat that the justice of a
well-ordered society would be undermined by a generalized
prisoner's dilemma. Showing how the Rawls of "A Theory of Justice"
tried to avert that threat shows that the much-neglected third part
of that book is of considerably greater philosophical interest, and
has considerably more unity of focus, than is generally
appreciated. Weithman painstakingly reconstructs Rawls's attempts
to show that a just society would be stable, and just as carefully
shows why Rawls came to think those arguments were inconsistent
with other parts of his theory. Weithman then shows that the
changes Rawls introduced into his view between "Theory of Justice"
and "Political Liberalism" result from his attempt to remove the
inconsistency and show that the hazard of the generalized
prisoner's dilemma can be averted after all. Recovering Rawls's two
treatments of stability helps to answer contested questions about
the role of the original position and the foundations of justice as
fairness. The result is a powerful and unified reading of Rawls's
work that explains his political turn and shows his enduring
engagement with some of the deepest concerns of human life.
"Weithman has written a masterful work of Rawls scholarship. This
book will deepen our understanding of how and why Rawls
restructured his theory, and illuminate this fascinating transition
in the history of political philosophy." Leif Wenar, Chair of
Ethics, Kings College London "Weithman's reconstruction of Rawls's
arguments is masterful, convincing and in many ways revelatory.
Readers will find that the text provides compelling answers to a
lot of puzzling questions about Rawls's project that have lingered
for some time. Perhaps most importantly, Weithman gives the best
explanation to date of exactly why Rawls felt compelled to revise
his theory as he did." Colin Bird, Department of Politics,
University of Virginia
Alors que l'on sort a peine de la querelle des Anciens et des
Modernes en Europe, la curiosite antiquaire se mondialise. De Paris
a Pekin, de Delhi a Mexico en passant par Copenhague ou
Philadelphie, cet engouement pour les discussions et les pratiques
antiquaires s'affirme au dix-huitieme siecle et deconstruit les
contours rassurants du modele greco-latin. Ce livre essaie de
rendre compte de ce changement d'echelle en suivant une perspective
originale et nouvelle en faveur d'une histoire connectee de la
connaissance antiquaire au dix-huitieme siecle. Loin des traditions
nationales ou seulement comparatistes qui avaient mis en evidence
les relations que les differentes societes humaines avaient
entretenues, au cours de l'histoire, avec les vestiges du passe, ce
livre envisage les cultures et les savoirs antiquaires dans leur
materialite non seulement dans les metropoles europeennes, mais
aussi dans les capitales americaines et asiatiques. A distance
d'une Antiquite figee, ce livre entend montrer comment la mobilite
des savants et des artistes a commence a pluraliser l'Antiquite des
le dix-huitieme siecle, a la depayser dans un contexte global et
imperial. ~ Just as the quarrel between the Ancients and the
Moderns was coming to an end in Europe, antiquarian curiosity
became global. From Paris to Peking, from Delhi to Mexico City, via
Copenhagen and Philadelphia, this craze for antiquarian discussions
and practices took hold in the eighteenth century and deconstructed
the reassuring contours of the Greco-Latin model. This book
attempts to account for this change of scale by following an
original and new perspective in favour of a connected history of
antiquarian knowledge in the eighteenth century. Far from the
national or only comparative traditions that had highlighted the
relations that the different human societies had maintained, in the
course of history, with the remains of the past, this book
considers the cultures and the antiquarian knowledge in their
materiality not only in the European metropolises, but also in the
American and Asian capitals. This book aims to show how the
mobility of scholars and artists began to pluralize antiquity from
the eighteenth century onwards, to make it more diverse in a global
and imperial context.
In Enlightenment Europe, a new form of pantomime ballet emerged,
through the dual channels of theorization in print and
experimentation onstage. Emphasizing eighteenth-century ballet's
construction through print culture, Theories of Ballet in the Age
of the Encyclopedie follows two parallel paths-standalone treatises
on ballet and dance and encyclopedias-to examine the shifting
definition of ballet over the second half of the eighteenth
century. Bringing together the Encyclopedie and its Supplement, the
Encyclopedie methodique, and the Encyclopedie d'Yverdon with the
works of Jean-Georges Noverre, Louis de Cahusac, and Charles
Compan, it traces how the recycling and recombining of discourses
about dance, theatre, and movement arts directly affected the
process of defining ballet. At the same time, it emphasizes the
role of textual borrowing and compilation in disseminating
knowledge during the Enlightenment, examining the differences
between placing borrowed texts into encyclopedias of various types
as well as into journal format, arguing that context has the
potential to play a role equally important to content in shaping a
reader's understanding, and that the Encyclopedie methodique
presented ballet in a way that diverged radically from both the
Encyclopedie and Noverre's Lettres sur la danse.
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