Rousseau's Politics of Taste

By Jared Holley

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399521152
• ISBN13: 9781399521154
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"