Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary

by Tracy B. Strong

Book Overview

Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742521427
• ISBN13: 9780742521421
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 232 Pages