Lessons on Rousseau

by Louis Althusser

Book Overview

Althusser dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopher

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the cole normale sup rieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau's ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784785571
• ISBN13: 9781784785574
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"