ALLEGORIES OF READING started out as a historical study and ended up as a theory of reading. De Man began to read Rousseau seriously in preparation for a historical reflection on Romanticism and found himself unable to progress beyond local difficulties of interpretation. In trying to cope with this, he had to shift from historical definition to the problema tics of reading. This shift, which is typical of his generation, is of more interest in its results than in its causes.
Debates about freedom, an ideal continually contested, were first set out in their modern version by the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His ideas and analyses were taken up during the philosophical enlightenment, often invoked during the French Revolution, and still resonate in contemporary discussions of freedom.
In this dazzling short meditation on the nature of human relationships, noted Bulgarian philosopher Tzvetan Todorov makes a scholarly yet readable contribution to contemporary debates about the self. Arguing that philosophic thought equated solitude with wholeness until Rousseau "formulated a new conception of man as a being who needs others," Todorov traces the evolution of Rousseau's idea in the modern era and contemporary ideology.
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.
The controversial book about intellectuals in history from Rousseau, Marx, and Tolstoy to Satre, Noam Chomsky, and Lillian Hellman.
Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 10 - Rousseau and Revolution
10th in the Civilization series - The Durants present a dramatic exploration of the events leading up to the French Revolution. Pulitzer Prize.
X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967)
1. Prelude
2. France Before the Deluge: 1757-74
3. The Catholic South: 1715-89
4. Islam and the Slavic East: 1715-96
5. The Protestant North: 1756-89
6. Johnson's England: 1756-89
7. The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774-89
8. Envoi
