Fugitive Rousseau : : Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom / / Jimmy Casas Klausen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Klausen, Jimmy Casas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Just Ideas
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; I Slavery --; 1. Displacements --; 2. . . . and Condensations --; II Freedom? --; 3. Cosmopolitanism --; 4. Nativism --; 5. Fugitive Freedom --; Afterword --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823257324; 9783110729030; 9783111189604
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823257324?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jimmy Casas Klausen.

Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery.Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.