Screen LibraryRousseau's Platonic Enlightenment
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Pennsylvania State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | University Park, Pa. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxiii, 306 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780271029979 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271029978 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B565 |
| CLC: | B565.26 |
| Call Number: | B565.26/W722 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-291) and index. "Frequently cited works": p. [xiii]-xiv. The context, part 1: metaphysics and politics in Hobbes and Locke -- The context, part 2: materialism and Platonism in modern Europe -- Metaphysics and morality : the Platonism of the Savoyard Vicar -- The general will : on the meaning and priority of justice in Rousseau -- Of chains, caves, and slaves : allegory and illusion in Rousseau -- Rousseau's system of checks and balances : the negative function of justice -- Kant's conceptions of the general will : the formalist interpretation -- The Foucauldian legacy : critiques without justice? |