Rousseau's Exemplary Life : the Confessions as Political Philosophy.
In this stimulating reading of Rousseau's Confessions, Christopher Kelly breaks down the artificial distinction traditionally made between this autobiographical work and Rousseau's overtly philosophical works. At the same time, Kelly provides us with the most complete commentary on the Con...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; ROUSSEAU'S EXEMPLARY LIFE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PREFACE; PRIMARY SOURCE CITATIONS; 1. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE GENRE OF LIVES; The Problem of Autobiography; Confession and Rousseau's Autobiographical Project; Autobiography as Moral Fable; The Political Use of Moral Fables; Politics, the Imitative Arts, and Autobiography; The Possibility of Philosophic Autobiography; The Necessity of Philosophic Autobiography; Rousseau's Intention in the Confessions; 2. THE NEED FOR A NEW EXEMPLARY LIFE; Traditional Exemplary Lives; The Citizen: The Case for Cato. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Philosopher: The Case for SocratesA Revolution in the Universe: The Case for Jesus; Jean-Jacques: The Case against Jesus, Socrates, and Cato; 3. THE AWAKENING OF THE IMAGINATION AND THE DEPARTURE FROM NATURE (BOOK I); The Structure of Part One of the Confessions; Imagination and Living outside Oneself; Imagination and Sexuality; Imagination and Anger: On the Naturalness of the Sentiment of the Just and Unjust; Imagination and Vanity: Pride versus Vanity; The Development of the Imagination and the Origin of Crime; Imagination and the Disruption of Civilized Wholeness. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4. THE ALTERNATIVES FOR CIVILIZED LIFE (BOOKS II-VI)The Consequences of a Positive Education; Books II-IV: Living outside Oneself; Natural, Conventional, and Imaginary Places in the Political Order; Book V: Subpolitical Social Wholeness; Book VI: Happiness and Natural Wholeness; The Loss of Happiness; 5. THE REDISCOVERY OF NATURE (BOOKS VII AND VIII); The Theme and Structure of Part Two of the Confessions; Book VII: Amour-propre and Knowledge; Imagination, the Political Order, and Nature; Book VIII: ""I Saw Another Universe; I Became Another Man; Effervescence and Intoxication. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6. THE RETURN TO NATURE? (BOOKS IX-XII)The Problem of a Return to Nature; Book IX: ""My Soul in Motion"": The Failure of Social Wholeness; Books X and XI: Social Dependence; Book XII: A Second ""Age of Happiness; The Conclusion of the Confessions; 7. THE SUCCESS OF THE CONFFSSIONS; Rousseau's Judgment of the Confessions; The Confessions as the Epistemological Foundation of Rousseau's System; The Confessions as an Account of the Life According to Nature; The Confessions as a Moral Fable; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. | |
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