Sally Howard Campbell

Rousseau and the Paradox of Alienation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sally Howard Campbell finds the bridge between the now-dominant psycho-social conception of alienation and the legal-political conception that prevailed prior to Rousseau. She discusses Rousseau's transformation of the concept of alienation and how it laid much of the groundwork for Marx's later, more explicit discussions of man's alienation. Using Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, Campbell shows how Rousseau depicts the development of man's awareness of himself as a conscious and moral being, illustrating man's journey from a natural state of self-sufficiency to one of dependence and alienation. Paradoxically, she describes Rousseau's belief that a state of wholeness can only be achieved through a man's total alienation of himself to the community, free from the alienating effects of civil society. She concludes that, like Marx, Rousseau believed that alienation can only be transcended through the merging of the individual and the community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739166345
• Artikelnr.: 38220086

Autorenporträt

Sally Howard Campbell is associate professor of political science at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, where she has taught since 2003. She teaches courses in political theory, international relations and constitutional law. She received her Master's degree from Rice University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. She has co-authored articles for The Journal of Conflict Resolution and The American Journal of Political Science and was a contributor to The Constitutionalism of the American States (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Alienation Prior to Rousseau
Chapter Two: The Rousseauian State of Nature
Chapter Three: The Path to Alienation
Chapter Four: Man in Civil Society
Chapter Five: The Paradox of Alienation
Chapter Six: The Legacy of Rousseau's Innovation
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