Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity Self, Culture, and Society

Name: Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity Self, Culture, and Society
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ISBN: 9780271026015

ISBN-10: 0271026014

ISBN-13: 9780271026015

Edition: 1996

Authors: Mira Morgenstern

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In this refreshing contrast to many commentators, Morgenstern does justice to the complexity of Rousseau's work by drawing on his novels as well as his explicity political writings.-Choice"This book is a well-written, innovative, in-depth investigation of the central themes of Rousseau's thought."-Ethics"Morgenstern has earned the right to present her conclusions to the scholarly world. Rousseau scholars should be encouraged to face the difficulties she elaborates."-Hilail Gildin, Queens College, CUNYThis new reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau challenges traditional views of the eighteenth-century political philosopher's attitudes toward women and his perceived pessimism about human…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.584

Sheldon Ungar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.Mira Morgenstern is Associate Professor of Political Science at The City College, City University of New York. She is the author of Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity: Self, Culture, and Society (Penn State, 1996).��