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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary - Strong, Tracy B
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In this book, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. 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 ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary 2002, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742521438

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary 2002, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780742521421

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary 1994, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Thousand Oaks

ISBN-13: 9780803945869

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary 1994, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Thousand Oaks

ISBN-13: 9780803945876

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