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Johnston, Steven

 
9780801435966: Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau, Politics and the Project of Democratic Order
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ISBN 10: 080143596X ISBN 13: 9780801435966
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1999

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Rousseau's work has long been fundamental to democratic thought. Steven Johnston here addresses some of the more paradoxical and problematic aspects of his ambiguous legacy. Johnston argues that the philosopher's real and imagined polities foster forms of violence--even cruelty--at odds with his republican ideals. How could an author committed to freedom and equality authorize new forms of domination? How could Rousseau's considerable theoretical successes simultaneously produce profound and persistent infelicities? Arguing that Rousseau's political prescriptions deliver something other than what they promise, Johnston offers answers to these difficult questions. Johnston draws on selected texts in Rousseau's corpus--including the underappreciated tracts on Poland and Corsica--to interpret Rousseau first and foremost as an anatomist and architect of order. Encountering Tragedy contests Rousseau's munificent ontological presumptions, probes the necessary and disturbing fictions of the Founding, and delineates the constitutive role of enmity in his virtuous republic.

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Editore
Cornell Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
080143596X
ISBN 13 
9780801435966
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
189
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