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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations (Paperback)
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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations (Paperback)
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In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest
implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never
solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was
fundamentally unsolvable-that social relationships could never
restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging
study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we
want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we
are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of
Rousseau's thought on three distinct types of relationships-sexual
love, friendship, and civil or political association-as well as
alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the
neo-Kantian Rawlsian school. The result is an insightful
exploration of the way Rousseau inspires readers to imbue social
relations with purpose and meaning, only to show the impossibility
of reaching wholeness through such relationships. While Rousseau
may raise our hopes only to dash them, Rousseau and the Problem of
Human Relations demonstrates that his ambitious failure offers
unexpected insight into the human condition and into the limits of
Rousseau's critical act.
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