Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity: Self, Culture and Society

by Mira Morgenstern

This new reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau challenges traditional views of the eighteenth-century political philosopher's attitudes toward women and his perceived pessimism about human experience. Mira Morgenstern finds in Rousseau an appreciation of the complexities and multidimensionality of life that allowed him to criticize various easy dualisms promoted by his fellow liberal thinkers and point to the crucial mediating role that women fulfill between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101573X
• ISBN13: 9780271015736
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"