EAN: 9783319823423

RECOVERING POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ROUSSEAUS REJ...

This book reads Jean-Jacques Rousseau with a view toward deepening our understanding of many
political issues alive today  including the place of women in society  the viability of
traditional family structures  the role of religion and religious freedom in nations that are
becoming ever more secular  and the proper conduct of American constitutional government.
Rousseau has been among the most influential modern philosophers  and among the most
misunderstood. The first great philosophic critic of the Enlightenment  he sought to revive
political philosophy as it was practiced by Plato  and to make it useful in the modern world.
His understanding of politics rests on deep and often prescient reflections about the nature of
the human soul and the relationship between our animal origins and the achievements of
civilization. This book demonstrates that the implications Rousseau drew from those reflections
continue to deserve serious attention.

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