Mark Kremer

Romanticism and Civilization (eBook, ePUB)

Love, Marriage, and Family in Rousseau's Julie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau's foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the ills of modern civilization, and that Rousseau saw that the Enlightenment's combination of science and of democracy degraded human life by making it bourgeois. The bourgeois is man uprooted by science and attached to nothing but himself. He lives a commercial life and his materialism and calculations penetrate all aspects of his existence. He is neither citizen, nor family man, nor lover in any serious sense: his life is meaningless. Rousseau's romanticism in Julie is an attempt to find connectedness through the sentiments of private life and wholeness through love, marriage, and family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498527484
• Artikelnr.: 49224226

Autorenporträt

Mark Kremer is associate professor of political science at Kennesaw State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Bourgeois
Nature
and Civic Virtue: Sexual Relations in Three Societies Chapter 2 Rousseau's Romantic Reform of Christian Piety
Aristocratic Honor
and Patriarchal Authority Chapter 3 Rousseau's Romantic Alternatives: Love and Family