Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom

by Jimmy Casas Klausen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823267474
• ISBN13: 9780823267477
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"