![]() ![]() ![]() Written from different, even opposing perspectives, these lucid essays convey a sense of the vital and contentious debate surrounding Rousseau and his legacy. And Conor Cruise O'Brien takes on the "noxious," "deranged" Rousseau, excoriated by Edmund Burke but admired by Robespierre and Thomas Jefferson. ![]() David Bromwich analyzes Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. Bellah explores Rousseau's attempt to resolve the tension between the individual's desire for freedom and the obligations that society imposes. Gita May's essay discusses Rousseau as cultural critic. Susan Dunn's introductory essay underlines the unity of Rousseau's political thought and explains why his ideas influenced Jacobin revolutionaries in France but repelled American revolutionaries across the ocean. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings-The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)-and presents essays by major scholars that shed light on the dimensions and implications of these texts. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. ![]()
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They shot and put thousands of adversaries behind bars, locked others in concentration camps, ostracized hundreds of artists and intellectuals, and pushed almost a quarter of the population into forced exile. (Cuban State TV Roundtable program)ġ4ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, - The Cuban dictatorship has practiced for decades the exclusion and extermination of anyone who thinks differently. ![]() ![]() “WE ARE FIDEL” – The greatest challenge that we Cubans face is not only to overthrow a despicable dictatorship, but to know how to build a democratic country tomorrow, truly free, without dogmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Afterword: Part 1 (Jon and Greg's update to the book in 2021)Ĭatching up with 'Coddling' Part one (a blog series by Greg in 2021, updating the trends discussed in the book. 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