Rousseau and desire

by Blackell, Mark Duncan, John Kow, Simon

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Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity.

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Title Statements

Full title :Rousseau and desire / edited by Mark Blackell, John Duncan, and Simon Kow.

Summary

Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication:Toronto [Ont.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 206 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442685376, 1442685379
oclc:ocn899295250
LC Classification:B2137
Dewey Decimal:194

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.

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Civilisation moderne et contemporaine -… Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy Désir (philosophie) Desire (Philosophy) Electronic books Moi (Philosophie) PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Self (Philosophy)