| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 206 pages) |
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Introduction : Rousseau, desire, and modernity / Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow -- pt. 1, From the standard of natural independence to the challenges of bourgeois capitalism. Perfectibility, chance, and the mechanism of desire multiplication in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality / John Duncan ; An alternative to economic man : the limitation of desire in Rousseau's Emile / Grace Roosevelt ; Rousseau's Mandevillean conception of desire and modern society / Simon Kow -- pt. 2, Desire and the problem of others in modernity. Desire and will : the sentient and conscious self in Lock and Rousseau / Vasiliki Grigoropoulou ; Opening that close : the paradox of desire in Rousseau / Katrin Froese ; Rousseau, constant, and the political institutionalization of ambivalence / Mark Blackell -- pt. 3, Sex, kids, love, and the city. 'The pleasures associated with the reproduction of men' : Rousseau on desire and the child / Brian Duff ; Politics in/of the city : love, modernity, and strangeness in the city of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Mira Morgenstern |
| Summary |
Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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| SUBJECT |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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Desire (Philosophy)
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Self (Philosophy)
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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Desire (Philosophy)
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Self (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blackell, Mark, 1967- editor.
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Kow, Simon, 1974- editor.
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Duncan, John, 1960- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442685376 |
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1442685379 |
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