Rousseau's Politics of Taste

Rousseau's Politics of Taste challenges the popular but partial pictures we have of Rousseau as an inconsistent 'ancient' utopian or a 'modern' abstract philosopher with a systematising spirit. Combining intellectual history and political theory, it reinterprets his understandings of pleasure and happiness, judgment and amour-propre, inequality, the general will and, above all, taste. Rousseau's readers have long recognised the complex tensions in his thought. By reconstructing his theory of taste as a kind of modern Epicureanism, this book provides a way of articulating neglected patterns in those tensions and, a new understanding of what he was attempting to achieve with his political thought.

Author: Jared Holley
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 09/30/2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781399521154