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Being after Rousseau - Philosophy and Culture in Question (Paperback, New Ed)
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Being after Rousseau - Philosophy and Culture in Question (Paperback, New Ed)
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In "Being after Rousseau, " Richard L. Velkley presents
Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition
of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture--a
reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition
from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin
Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of
ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between
nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and
society that Rousseau brought to the fore.
The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's
criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German
Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique,
they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be
attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and
Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the
Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to
recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has
distorted.
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