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Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love - Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Paperback)
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Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love - Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Paperback)
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This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and
complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for
him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts.
Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals to seek
the esteem, approval, admiration, or love--the recognition --of
their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's
understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so
problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching
developmental possibilities for creatures that possess it. One of
Rousseau's central theses is that amour propre in its corrupted,
manifestations--pride or vanity--is the principal source of an
array of evils so widespread that they can easily appear to be
necessary features of the human condition: enslavement, conflict,
vice, misery, and self-estrangement. Yet Rousseau also argues that
solving these problems depends not on suppressing or overcoming the
drive for recognition but on cultivating it so that it contributes
positively to the achievement of freedom, peace, virtue, happiness,
and unalienated selfhood. Indeed, Rousseau goes so far as to claim
that, despite its many dangers, the need for recognition is a
condition of nearly everything that makes human life valuable and
that elevates it above mere animal existence: rationality,
morality, freedom--subjectivity itself--would be impossible for
humans if it were not for amour propre and the relations to others
it impels us to establish.
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