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Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess (Hardcover)
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Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess (Hardcover)
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Over a period of forty years, Rousseau combined his devotion to
writing with his enthusiasm for chess, and these two passions
necessarily intertwined. Rousseau was able to transfer his power of
concentration and the strict dialectics of his literary writings to
his chess strategy. If Rousseau's analytical skills influenced his
attitude toward the game, then the game of chess inspired his logic
and affected his discourse. Interpreted as a form of rationality,
as a conceptual paradigm, the rules and strategies of chess
accurately describe Rousseau's ideas for social management,
political power, and organization. Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau
through the Prism of Chess shows that Rousseau's political theory,
though allegedly inspired by Nature, found a perfect model in a
game created by mankind; chess thus became a reference for his
philosophical discourse and practice as well as a method to
systematize Nature and organize society.
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