Being After Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question

by Richard Velkley

Book Overview

In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture--a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226852571
• ISBN13: 9780226852577
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"