Abandoned to Ourselves - Being an Essay on Emergence Implications of Sociology in Writings of

Informationen zum Autor Peter Alexander Meyers is professor of American studies at the Universite Paris III--Sorbonne Nouvelle! and a recurring visitor in the departments of Politics! Philosophy! History! and Sociology at Princeton University. Klappentext In this extraordinary work! Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centerpiece of the Enlightenment--"society "as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice--was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Displaying this new "society" as an evolving field of interdependence! "Abandoned to Ourselves" traces the emergence and moral significance of dependence itself within Rousseau's encounters with a variety of discourses of order! including theology! natural philosophy! and music. Underpinning this whole scene we discover a modernizing conception of the human Will! one that runs far deeper than Rousseau's most famous trope! the "general Will." As "Abandoned to Ourselves" weaves together historical acuity with theoretical insight! readers will find here elements for a reconstructed sociology inclusive of things and persons and! as a consequence! a new foundation for contemporary political theory. Zusammenfassung Shows how the centrepiece of the Enlightenment - society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice - was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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• Authors: Peter Alexander Meyers, Meyers Peter Alexander
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2013
• EAN: 9780300172058
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17205-8
• No. of pages: 552
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy: Enlightenment