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Paperback Rousseau Et Le Matérialisme Book

ISBN: 1789622026

ISBN13: 9781789622027

Rousseau Et Le Matérialisme

Peu d' tudes se sont attard es sur la dimension mat rialiste de la pens e de J-J. Rousseau. si ce n'est que pour s'en tenir largement l'analyse de Marcel Raymond qui voyait dans le philosophe genevois un continuateur de l'empirisme lockien. Or, l'oeuvre de Rousseau, en particulier dans sa forme autobiographique et th orique, s'appuie continuellement sur le mat rialisme ambiant de son poque. La mat rialisme rousseauiste constitue m me la cl permettant d' clairer la relation complexe que le citoyen de Gen ve entretient avec ses contemporains philosophes, oscillant entre un attachement certain au pass et un regard profond ment visionnaire sur l'homme et la soci t .

travers "le mat rialisme du sage", cette formule tir e des Confessions qui illumine si bien sa pens e, Rousseau accommode tout le poids de la tradition - histoire, religion, politique - avec le renouveau philosophique des Lumi res. Le mat rialisme n'implique pas une fatalit ; il est plut t un savoir qu'il entend exploiter afin de trouver un semblant de stabilit et de bien- tre au sein d'un monde sujet au perp tuel changement. Toute l'audace de sa pens e est d'avoir fait de la r alit tragique du mat rialisme la condition de possibilit de toute libert r elle, et du bonheur qu'il esp re voir l'homme en tirer.

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Few studies have focused on the materialist dimension of J-J. Rousseau's thought, except to adhere largely to the analysis of Marcel Raymond, who saw in the Genevan philosopher a continuator of Lockian empiricism. However, Rousseau's work, particularly in its autobiographical and theoretical form, relies heavily on the ambient materialism of his time. This materialism in Rousseau is indeed key to understanding the complex relationship that the citizen of Geneva had with his contemporary philosophers, alternating between a marked attachment to the past and a deeply visionary view of man and society.

Through "le mat rialisme du sage", an expression drawn from the Confessions which illuminates his thought so well, Rousseau accommodates the full weight of tradition - history, religion, politics - with the philosophical renewal of the Enlightenment. Materialism is not an inevitability, but constitutes a form of knowledge which he intends to harness in order to find a semblance of stability and well-being in a world subject to perpetual change. The boldness of his thought is to have made the tragic reality of materialism the very condition of true freedom, and of the happiness he hopes mankind can draw from it.

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