Fugitive Rousseau - Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom

Fugitive Rousseau explores slavery and primitivism in Rousseau's political writings by contextualizing them in modern European empire and Roman imperial philosophy. Fugitive Rousseau argues against seeing Rousseau as either a nativist or cosmopolitan, either communitarian or liberal, and instead reconstructs a radical conception of freedom based in fugitive political resistance.

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Jimmy Casas Klausen

Summary

Fugitive Rousseau explores slavery and primitivism in Rousseau’s political writings by contextualizing them in modern European empire and Roman imperial philosophy. Fugitive Rousseau argues against seeing Rousseau as either a nativist or cosmopolitan, either communitarian or liberal, and instead reconstructs a radical conception of freedom based in fugitive political resistance.

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• Authors: Jimmy Casas Klausen
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9780823267477
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6747-7
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Just Ideas; Just Ideas: Transformative Ide; Just Ideas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education