Title Public vision, private lives : Rousseau, religion, and 21st-century democracy / Mark S. Cladis

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index Subject Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. SUBJECT Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Politische Philosophie -- Öffentlichkeit -- Privatleben. swd Subject Democracy. Privacy. Public interest. public interest. Democracy Privacy Public interest Godsdienst. Politische Philosophie -- Öffentlichkeit -- Privatleben -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Öffentlichkeit -- Privatleben -- Politische Philosophie -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Privatleben -- Öffentlichkeit -- Politische Philosophie -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780195125542 0195125541

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