{"product_id":"the-life-of-wisdom-in-rousseaus-reveries-of-the-solitary-walker-9781501769238","title":"The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Reveries of the Solitary Walker\" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Reveries\u003c\/i\u003e has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing's complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of life--and how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made central--and that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of \"human wisdom.\" Rousseau made this again the supreme theme and source of norms for political philosophy and for humanity's moral as well as civic existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his analysis of \u003ci\u003eThe Reveries\u003c\/i\u003e, Pangle uncovers Rousseau's most profound exploration and articulation of his own life, personality, soul, and thought as \"the man of nature enlightened by reason.\" He describes, in Rousseau's final work, the fullest embodiment of the experiential wisdom from which flows and to which points Rousseau's political and moral philosophy, his theology, and his musical and literary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas L. Pangle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501769238","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712817107081,"sku":"9781501769238","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_274a7799-8c3f-47f9-a472-de23a80ff6ae.jpg?v=1719600313","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-life-of-wisdom-in-rousseaus-reveries-of-the-solitary-walker-9781501769238","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}