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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Table of Contents:
- 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