Jared Holley Rousseau'S Politics of Taste (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Further DetailsTitle: Rousseau'S Politics of TasteCondition: NewEAN: 9781399521154ISBN: 9781399521154Publisher: Edinburgh University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/30/2024Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Jared HolleyGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityDescription: Rousseau's Politics of Taste challenges the popular but partial pictures we have of Rousseau as an inconsistent 'ancient' utopian or a 'modern' abstract philosopher with a systematising spirit. Combining intellectual history and political theory, it reinterprets his understandings of pleasure and happiness, judgment and amour-propre, inequality, the general will and, above all, taste. Rousseau's readers have long recognised the complex tensions in his thought. By reconstructing his theory of taste as a kind of modern Epicureanism, this book provides a way of articulating neglected patterns in those tensions and, a new understanding of what he was attempting to achieve with his political thought.?Release Year: 2024

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