Fugitive Rousseau (eBook)

Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom

Jimmy Casas Klausen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
356 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-5731-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with "e;noble savages"e; and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau's thought and argues that a fresh, "e;fugitive"e; perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau's treatments of primitivism and slavery.Rather than trace Rousseau s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau s famous sentence Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Just Ideas
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Empire • Enlightenment • freedom • International Political Theory • Jean-Jacques • political resistance • Primitivism • radical democratic theory • Rousseau • Slavery
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-5731-2 / 0823257312
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-5731-7 / 9780823257317