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Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment

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In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens' passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau's central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau's major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau's other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau's understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer's analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau's contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau's understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.


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"Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Rousseau¿s Works
Introduction
1Judgment and the Standard of Nature
2Learning to Move: The Body, the Senses, and the Foundations of Judgment
3Books and Experience in the Education of Judgment
4Judgment and Pity
5Piety and Authority
6Judgment, Love, and Illusion
7Judgment and the Possibility of Partial Detachment
8Judgment and Citizenship
Notes
Index


About the author

Denise Schaeffer is Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross.

Product details

Authors Denise Schaeffer, Schaeffer Denise
Publisher University Presses
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.01.2016
 
EAN 9780271062105
ISBN 978-0-271-06210-5
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
Weight 386 g
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, Social & political philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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