Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Politics of the Ordinary
Published on 8. April 2002
232 pages
978-1-4616-6561-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-6561-8 (9781461665618)
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Tracy B. Strong is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.
Content
Chapter 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Fear of the Author
Chapter 2 Rousseau and the Experience of Others
Chapter 3 The General Will and the Scandal of Politics
Chapter 4 The Education of an Ordinary Man
Chapter 5 The Ends of Politics
Chapter 2 Rousseau and the Experience of Others
Chapter 3 The General Will and the Scandal of Politics
Chapter 4 The Education of an Ordinary Man
Chapter 5 The Ends of Politics
