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Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity

262 Pages

by Routledge

262 Pages

by Routledge

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This volume seeks to capture Jean-Jacques Rousseau's astonishing contribution to our understanding of the dilemmas of modernity. For the contributors to this book Rousseau is present as well as past, because he was so modern and yet so ambivalent about modernity, a position with which we are quite familiar. Highlighted in this volume is the contention that Rousseau set the stage for many... Read more

Introduction: Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity
Mark Hulliung

Part One: Before and After Vincennes

1 Rousseau's Chemical Apprenticeship
Christopher Kelly

Part Two: Citoyens and Citoyennes

2 Rousseau's Response to the Social Contract Tradition
Mark Hulliung

3 Over Her Dead Body: Voila La Citoyenne?
Claudia Schaler

Part Three: Sound and Music

4 How to Be Modern in Music: Rousseau between Greece, Italy, and Vienna
Michael O'Dea
5 Listening in Rousseau's Auditory World: Sound, Noise, and Music
Julia Simon

Part Four: Ancients and Moderns

6 Rousseau, Fenelon, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns
Patrick Riley
7 Stoicism for Rousseau and Other Beleaguered Moderns
Mark Hulliung

Part Five: The Modern Predicament

8 Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Liberal Modernity
Shefali Misra
9 The Unconditional Self
Claude Habib

About the Authors

Index