Creolizing Rousseau

by Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts

Book Overview

In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity" within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178348280X
• ISBN13: 9781783482801
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary