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1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) |
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Preparing for the journey: an introduction -- I. From the garden to the city: the tragic passage -- Nature's garden -- Revisiting the garden's solitaires -- From the garden to the blessed country: the precarious passage -- The rush to slavery -- The city: life in the ousted condition -- Overcoming moral evil: Rousseau at the crossroads -- II. Paths to redemption -- Reforming the city: the extreme public path -- Evading the city: the private path -- The mountain village: the path to family, work, community, and love -- Reconciling citizen and solitaire: religious dimensions of the middle way -- Residual conflict: democracy and ineluctable friction -- A way forward, Rousseau and 21st-century democracy |
Summary |
This text invites us to reflect on the nature and place of public and private in the work of Rousseau and, more generally, in society. It explores the conflicts with which Rousseau wrestled - prerogatives and obligations to self, friends, family, civic life, and to humanity |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Politische Philosophie -- Öffentlichkeit -- Privatleben. swd |
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Democracy.
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Privacy.
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Public interest.
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public interest.
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Democracy
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Privacy
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Public interest
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Godsdienst.
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Politische Philosophie -- Öffentlichkeit -- Privatleben -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
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Öffentlichkeit -- Privatleben -- Politische Philosophie -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
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Privatleben -- Öffentlichkeit -- Politische Philosophie -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780195125542 |
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0195125541 |
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