Isaac Kramnick
'Instinct and Intimacy challenges virtually all the conventional wisdom about Rousseau and his writings from the perspective of a psychoanalytic reading of his various efforts at autobiography. The book offers fresh insights into much of Rousseau that seems puzzling, paradoxical, or problematic, and brilliantly directs attention to Rousseau's valorization of private life and intimate society. It provides a new reading on Rousseau's complicated views on women, even to the provocative suggestion, well reasoned, that women may well be included in his vision of a politically intimate democratic state.'
Instinct and Intimacy: Political Philosophy and Autobiography in Rousseau
by Margaret Ogrodnick
Drawing upon his autobiographies, Ogrodnick analyzes Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a theorist of the modern self, tracing the implications for the problems and recommendations of his political thought.
Overview
Drawing upon his autobiographies, Ogrodnick analyzes Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a theorist of the modern self, tracing the implications for the problems and recommendations of his political thought.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780802006127
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication date:
- 07/31/1999
- Pages:
- 256
- Product dimensions:
- 6.26(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.92(d)
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