Ebook: Rousseau and Geneva : from the first discourse to the social contract, 1749-1762
Author: Rosenblatt Helena
- Tags: Rousseau Jean-Jacques -- 1712-1778 -- Contributions in political science, Rousseau Jean-Jacques -- 1712-1778, Geneva (Switzerland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century, Calvinism -- History, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays, Calvinism, Intellectual life, Political science, Switzerland -- Geneva, Calvinisme, Genève (stad)
- Series: Ideas in context 46.
- Year: 1997
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: Cambridge
- Language: English
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Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr. Rosenblatt contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but Dr. Rosenblatt points out that he is, in fact, a Genevan thinker and explains that Read more...