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Rousseau - The Sentiment of Existence (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,206
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Rousseau - The Sentiment of Existence (Hardcover, New): David Gauthier

Rousseau - The Sentiment of Existence (Hardcover, New)

David Gauthier

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Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier examines Rousseau's evolving notion of freedom, where he focuses on a single quest: can freedom and the independent self be regained? Rousseau's first answer is given in Emile, where he seeks to create a self-sufficient individual, neither materially nor psychologically enslaved to others. His second is in the Social Contract, where he seeks to create a citizen who identifies totally with his community, experiencing his dependence on it only as a dependence on himself. Rousseau implicitly recognized the failure of these solutions. His third answer is one of the main themes of the Confessions and Reveries, where he is made for a love that merges the selves of the lovers into a single, psychologically sufficient unity that makes each 'better than free'. But is this response a chimaera?

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2006
First published: 2006
Authors: David Gauthier
Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 214
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80976-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN: 0-521-80976-2
Barcode: 9780521809764

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