Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment

by David Lay Williams

Book Overview

Although many commentators on Rousseau's philosophy have noted its affinities with Platonism and acknowledged the debt that Rousseau himself expressed to Plato on numerous occasions, David Williams is the first to offer a thoroughgoing, systematic examination of this linkage. His contributions to the scholarship on Rousseau in this book are threefold: he enters the debate over whether Rousseau is a Hobbesian (in rejecting transcendent norms) or a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271029986
• ISBN13: 9780271029986
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"