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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau - Bienfaisance and Pudeur (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,047
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau - Bienfaisance and Pudeur (Hardcover, New): Judith Still

Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau - Bienfaisance and Pudeur (Hardcover, New)

Judith Still

Series: Cambridge Studies in French

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According to Rousseau, the best possible relationship between unequals is one of 'beneficence', giving, receiving and repaying benefits. This book addresses the problem implicit in his writings of whether it is indeed possible for a just and generous relationship to exist between non-equals. Judith Still draws together issues in Rousseau's work which are often treated in isolation: the state, just relations between individuals, the genealogy of passions, sexual politics and the constructing of a feminine identity. Using techniques of reading drawn from literary theory, particularly from the work of Derrida, de Man and Starobinski, she analyses the conceptual underpinnings of Rousseau's ethics, and the gaps and contradictions in his works, to argue that ultimately it is sexual difference, constructed defensively as a fixed, hierarchical opposition, which disturbs the practice of beneficence. She shows how Rousseau's reworking of the classical inheritance in a revolutionary historical moment, his peculiar combination of Enlightenment rationality and near-pathological sensibility, and his oscillating self-identification with virility and femininity, are reflected in this important aspect of his political and ethical theory.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in French
Release date: 1993
First published: 1993
Authors: Judith Still
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-41585-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-521-41585-3
Barcode: 9780521415859

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