Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2005
Summary
In Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Marks offers a new interpretation of the philosopher’s thought and its place in the contemporary debate between liberals and communitarians. Against prevailing views, he argues that Rousseau’s thought revolves around the natural perfection of a naturally disharmonious being. At the foundation of Rousseau’s thought he finds a natural teleology that takes account of and seeks to harmonize conflicting ends. The Rousse…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521850698 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052185069X |
| Author: | Jonathan Marks |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 161mm x 26mm |
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“This assessment is thorough and exceptionally fair-minded in its discussion of other interpreters of Rousseau. Marks recovers an analysis of liberalism’s problems that is more radical and yet more balanced than modern communitarian approaches.” - James H. Nichols, Jr. Claremont McKenna College
About The Author
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of “Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History “(1995) and coauthor, with Edward Staski, of “Evolutionary Anthropology “(1992).
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