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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
Contributor(s): Strathern, Paul (Author), Whitfield, Robert (Read by)
ISBN: 0786185341     ISBN-13: 9780786185344
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: December 2004
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - General
Dewey: 194
Series: Philosophers in 90 Minutes (Audio)
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.59" W x 5.83" (0.30 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau's ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who encouraged the introduction of both liberty and irrationality into the public domain. In Rousseau in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Rousseau's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Rousseau's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place Rousseau within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.

Contributor Bio(s): Strathern, Paul: -

Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. The author of many nonfiction books and of articles for numerous publications, he has also written several novels and has won the Somerset Maugham Prize. He lives and writes in London.

Whitfield, Robert: -

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London.