Frameworks of Time in Rousseau

The book brings into dialogue specialists from education, political theory, literature, and cultural studies with the aim to underscoring Rousseau's contributions to themes that preoccupy us today such as the appreciation of slow time, the uncounted time of women's lives and temporal challenges related to politics and the economy.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Rewinding the sentiment 2. Forgetting Time 3. Sophie's time off the clock 4. Spectral Memory and "hauntology" in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse 5. Nostalgia and Virtue in Rousseau's Julie 6. The problems of political time and the solutions of ancient history in Rousseau 7. Political Right, Political Economy, and the Economic Cycle in Rousseau, Quesnay, and Condillac 8. What Time Is It in Rousseau's Polity? 9. The Time of Growth

About the author

Masano Yamashita is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. She specializes in the literature and social thought of the eighteenth century. She is the author of Jean-Jacques Rousseau face au public: problèmes d'identité (2017) and of numerous articles on French writers of the Enlightenment.
Jason Neidleman is Professor of Political Science at the University of La Verne, where he teaches political theory and other subjects in politics, philosophy, history, and law. He is author of The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought (2001) and Rousseau's Ethics of Truth: A Sublime Science of Simple Souls (Routledge, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Jason (University of La Verne Neidleman
• Assisted by: Neidleman Jason (Editor), Yamashita Masano (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780367772864
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77286-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; France, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Historiography, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards