Instinct and Intimacy : : Political Philosophy and Autobiography in Rousseau / / Margaret Ogrodnick.

Drawing on his autobiographies, Margaret Ogrodnick analyses Jean-Jacques Rousseau's role as a theorist of the modern self, tracing the implications of his political thought. In elucidating the corresponding images in his autobiographical and philosophical works, the book attends especially to t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations to Rousseau’s Works
  • 1. The Modern Self in Rousseau
  • 2. Political Philosophy and the Introspective Psyche
  • 3. Woman, Sexuality, and Intimate Society
  • 4. Autonomy and Extension in Political Relations
  • 5. Independence and the General Will
  • 6. Compassion, Innocence, and the State
  • 7. Private and Public Realms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index