| Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom Contributor(s): Klausen, Jimmy Casas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823257290 ISBN-13: 9780823257294 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 2013035840 |
| Series: Just Ideas: Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.35 lbs) 356 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with noble savages and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau's thought and argues that a fresh, fugitive perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau's treatments of primitivism and slavery. Rather than trace Rousseau's arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau's famous sentence Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable. |
Contributor Bio(s): Klausen, Jimmy Casas: - Jimmy Casas Klausen holds an appointment at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He is co-editor with James Martel of How Not to Be Governed. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, Political Theory, and Journal of Politics. |