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Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Lifschitz, AS (Ed). (2016) Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. [Book]. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been cast as a champion of the Enlightenment and a beacon of Romanticism, a father figure of radical revolutionaries and totalitarian dictators alike, an inventor of the modern notion of the self and an advocate of stern ancient republicanism. This book treats his writings as an enduring topic of debate, examining the diverse responses they have attracted from the Enlightenment to the present. Such notions as the general will were, for example, refracted through very different prisms during the struggle for independence in Latin America and in social conflicts in Eastern Europe, or modified by thinkers from Kant to contemporary political theorists. Beyond Rousseau’s ideas, his public image too travelled around the world. The book examines engagement with Rousseau’s works as well as with his self-fashioning: especially in turbulent times, his defiant public identity and his call for regeneration were admired or despised by intellectuals and political agents.

Type: Book
Title: Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-14632-7
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/hist...
Additional information: This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Rousseau, Republicanism, Recognition, Liberalism, Socialism, Amour propre, Self-love, Freedom, Enlightenment, Intellectual history
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1498563
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