Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau : : The Jean-Jacques Problem / / Matthew D. Mendham.
Why did Rousseau fail—often so ridiculously or grotesquely—to live up to his own principles? In one of the most notorious cases of hypocrisy in intellectual history, this champion of the joys of domestic life immediately rid himself of each of his five children, placing them in an orphans' home...
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Mendham, Matthew D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau : The Jean-Jacques Problem / Matthew D. Mendham. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (296 p.) : 0 text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. I Could Never Have Been an Unnatural Father: Explaining the Discarded Children (ca. 1746–1778) -- Chapter 2. I Became Another Man: Reforms, Relapses, and the Soul of the Author (ca. 1749–1762) -- Chapter 3. It’s a Very Peculiar Citizen Who’s a Hermit: The Question of Civic Devotion (ca. 1754–1762) -- Chapter 4. A Lover of Peace or a Vile Insurgent? Confronting the Genevan Patriciate (ca. 1762–1768) -- Chapter 5. Excursus: The Revenge of Voltaire and the Autobiographical Turn (ca. October 1762– February 1765) -- Chapter 6. Only the Vicious Person Lives Alone: Social Duty and the Varieties of Solitude (ca. 1756–1778) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why did Rousseau fail—often so ridiculously or grotesquely—to live up to his own principles? In one of the most notorious cases of hypocrisy in intellectual history, this champion of the joys of domestic life immediately rid himself of each of his five children, placing them in an orphans' home. He advocated profound devotion to republican civic life, and yet he habitually dodged opportunities for political engagement. Finally, despite an elevated ethics of social duty, he had a pattern of turning against his most intimate friends, and ultimately fled humanity and civilization as such.In Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau, Matthew D. Mendham is the first to systematically analyze Rousseau's normative philosophy and self-portrayals in view of the yawning gap between them. He challenges recent approaches to "the Jean-Jacques problem," which tend either to dismiss his life or to downgrade his principles. Engaging in a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of Rousseau's works, including commonly neglected texts like his untranslated letters, Mendham reveals a figure who urgently sought to reconcile his life to his most elevated principles throughout the period of his main normative writings. But after the revelation of the secret about his children, and his disastrous stay in England, Rousseau began to shrink from the ambitious philosophical life to which he had previously aspired, newly driven to mitigate culpability for his discarded children, to a new quietism regarding civic engagement, and to a collapse of his sense of social duty. This book provides a moral biography in view of Rousseau's most controversial behaviors, as well as a preamble to future discussions of the spirit of his thought, positing a development more fundamental than the recent paradigms have allowed for. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Philosophy. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2021 English 9783110754155 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2021 9783110753929 ZDB-23-DPH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739213 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297805 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297805 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812297805/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. I Could Never Have Been an Unnatural Father: Explaining the Discarded Children (ca. 1746–1778) -- Chapter 2. I Became Another Man: Reforms, Relapses, and the Soul of the Author (ca. 1749–1762) -- Chapter 3. It’s a Very Peculiar Citizen Who’s a Hermit: The Question of Civic Devotion (ca. 1754–1762) -- Chapter 4. A Lover of Peace or a Vile Insurgent? Confronting the Genevan Patriciate (ca. 1762–1768) -- Chapter 5. Excursus: The Revenge of Voltaire and the Autobiographical Turn (ca. October 1762– February 1765) -- Chapter 6. Only the Vicious Person Lives Alone: Social Duty and the Varieties of Solitude (ca. 1756–1778) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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