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Rousseau and the French Revolution 1762-1791 (Hardcover)
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Rousseau and the French Revolution 1762-1791 (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Philosophy
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From 1789 onwards there sprang up a fervent revolutionary cult of
Rousseau, and at each stage in the subsequent unfolding of the
drama of the Revolution historians have seen Rousseau's influence
at work. Mrs McDonald seeks in this study to trace the development
of the cult and to define the nature of the influence by means of a
detailed survey of the appeals made to the authority of Rousseau in
books, pamphlets and accounts of speeches put forth by
revolutionary and counter-revolutionary writers between 1762 and
1791, and she reaches conclusions more complex than those which
have been commonly accepted. She is able to show that most of the
writers on the revolutionary side who invoked Rousseau's name did
so in order to put forward their own views and used arguments that
were often in direct contradiction with those which he had
formulated; the Social Contract was not widely read in these years,
and those revolutionaries who did actually study it were often
critical of what they found there. By contrast, the most careful
analysis of Rousseau's political theory is to be found in the
pamphlets written by aristocratic critics of the Revolution in
protest against the misuse to which his name had been put.
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