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Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Hardcover)
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This volume seeks to capture Jean-Jacques Rousseau's astonishing
contribution to our understanding of the dilemmas of modernity. For
the contributors to this book Rousseau is present as well as past,
because he was so modern and yet so ambivalent about modernity, a
position with which we are quite familiar. Highlighted in this
volume is the contention that Rousseau set the stage for many
discussions of the good and bad of modernity. Previous efforts to
deal with Rousseau and modernity have suffered from myopia. In the
nineteenth century the Romantics claimed Rousseau as one of their
own, pulling him out of his historical context, ignoring his full
scale immersion in the debates of the French Enlightenment. In the
twentieth century commentators have read into Rousseau the
ahistorical and present-minded Cold War theme of "Rousseau the
totalitarian." In this volume Rousseau is treated as a person of
his age but also as someone who speaks to us today. The topics
covered range from feminism, music, science, and political theory,
to updating the classics, and to the search for and limitations to
the quest for self-knowledge. Few if any figures can compete with
Rousseau when it comes to forcing us to face up to the price we pay
for "progress."
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