The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibilty of Reason

by Mads Qvortrup and Matt Qvortrup

This exciting new text presents the first overview of Jean Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative? This original study argues that the he was a constitutionalist much closer to Madison, Montesquieu, and Locke than to revolutionaries. Outlining his profound opposition to Godless materialism and revolutionary change, this book finds parallels between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071906581X
• ISBN13: 9780719065811
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.6"