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Rousseau Between Nature and Culture : Philosophy, Literature, and Politics / ed. by Anne Deneys-Tunney, Yves Charles Zarka.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture & Conflict ; 8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (VII, 206 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110450750
  • 9783110456677
  • 9783110457186
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • B2137 .R69 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Technology: Between Nature and Anti-Nature -- Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss’s “Master” -- Rousseau and the Authority of Nature -- Nature as Blind Space -- Rousseau and Technology: The Invention of a New Ecological Paradigm -- Rousseau and “The Mechanical Life” -- II. Politics and Ethics: Beyond the Nature/Culture Polarity -- Rousseau’s Ethical Freedom -- Remarks on Rousseau’s Dictatorship: Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt -- Politics and Religion in the Social Contract -- Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending Nature/Culture Dualism -- Rousseau and the Sovereignty of the People -- III. The Philosophical Novel: Culture as Nature’s Supplement -- Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse -- Recomposing the Diffracted Text: Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book of Nature -- Nature, Culture, and the Social Contract: Emile’s point of view -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and culture. In this, Rousseau is our true contemporary.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Technology: Between Nature and Anti-Nature -- Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss’s “Master” -- Rousseau and the Authority of Nature -- Nature as Blind Space -- Rousseau and Technology: The Invention of a New Ecological Paradigm -- Rousseau and “The Mechanical Life” -- II. Politics and Ethics: Beyond the Nature/Culture Polarity -- Rousseau’s Ethical Freedom -- Remarks on Rousseau’s Dictatorship: Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt -- Politics and Religion in the Social Contract -- Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending Nature/Culture Dualism -- Rousseau and the Sovereignty of the People -- III. The Philosophical Novel: Culture as Nature’s Supplement -- Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse -- Recomposing the Diffracted Text: Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book of Nature -- Nature, Culture, and the Social Contract: Emile’s point of view -- Contributors -- Index

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Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and culture. In this, Rousseau is our true contemporary.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)