Engaging with Rousseau : reaction and interpretation from the eighteenth century to the present

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by  Avi Lifschitz

Engaging with Rousseau
Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth
Century to the Present
Editedby
Avi Lifschitz
UniversityCollegeLondon
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Engaging with Rousseau
Jean-JacquesRousseauhasbeencastasachampionofEnlightenment
andabeaconofRomanticism,afatherfigureofradicalrevolutionaries
andtotalitariandictatorsalike,aninventorofthemodernnotionofthe
self and an advocate of stern ancient republicanism. Engaging with
Rousseautreatshiswritingsasanenduringtopicofdebate,examining
thediverseresponsestheyhaveattractedfromtheEnlightenmenttothe
present. Such notions as the general will were, for example, refracted
through very different prisms during the struggle for independence in
LatinAmericaandinsocialconflictsinEasternEurope,ormodifiedby
thinkers from Kant to contemporary political theorists. Beyond
Rousseau’s ideas, his public image also travelled around the world.
This book examines engagement with Rousseau’s works as well as
withhisself-fashioning:especiallyinturbulenttimes,hisdefiantpublic
identity and his call for regeneration were admired or despised by
intellectualsandpoliticalagents.
Avi Lifschitz is Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History at
University College London (UCL). He is the author of Language and
Enlightenment:TheBerlinDebatesoftheEighteenthCentury(2012)andco-
editorofEpicurusintheEnlightenment(2009).
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Engaging with Rousseau
Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth
Century to the Present
Editedby
Avi Lifschitz
UniversityCollegeLondon
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EngagingwithRousseau:reactionandinterpretationfromtheeighteenth
centurytothepresent/editedbyAviLifschitz,UniversityCollegeLondon.
Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPressispart
oftheUniversityofCambridge,[2016]|Includesbibliographical
referencesandindex.
LCCN2016017599|ISBN9781107146327
LCSH:Rousseau,Jean-Jacques,1712–1778.
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Contents
Notesoncontributors pagevii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xxi
Noteonthetextsandreferences xxiii
1 ‘Aloverofpeacemorethanliberty’?TheGenevan
rejectionofRousseau’spolitics
richard whatmore 1
2 AdrastusversusDiogenes:FredericktheGreatand
Jean-JacquesRousseauonself-love
avi lifschitz 17
3 Sourcesofevilorseedsofthegood?RousseauandKant
onneeds,thearts,andthesciences
alexander schmidt 33
4 RousseauandFrenchliberalism,1789–1870
jeremy jennings 56
5 Rousseauandtheredistributiverepublic:
Nineteenth-centuryFrenchinterpretations
jean-fabien spitz 74
6 EchoesoftheSocialContractinCentralandEastern
Europe,1770–1825
monika baa´r 95
7 ReadingRousseauinSpanishAmericaduringthewars
ofindependence(1808–1826)
nicola miller 114
v
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8 ‘Theporchtoacollectivismasabsoluteasthemindofman
haseverconceived’:RousseauscholarshipinBritainfrom
theGreatWartotheColdWar
christopher brooke 136
9 RousseauatHarvard:JohnRawlsandJudithShklaron
realisticutopia
ce´line spector 152
10 Rousseau’sdilemma
philip pettit 168
11 Thedepthsofrecognition:ThelegacyofJean-Jacques
Rousseau
axel honneth 189
Bibliography 207
Index 215
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Notes on contributors
monikabaa´risAssociateProfessorofHistoryatLeidenUniversity.She
is the author of Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the
NineteenthCentury(2010)andco-authorofAHistoryofModernPolitical
ThoughtinEastCentralEurope:VolumeI,NegotiatingModernityinthe
‘LongNineteenthCentury’(2016)andVolumeII,NegotiatingModernity
inthe‘ShortTwentiethCentury’andBeyond(forthcomingin2017).
christopher brooke is Lecturer in Political Theory in the
Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the
University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in
Politics at Homerton College. He is the author of Philosophic Pride:
StoicismandPoliticalThoughtfromLipsiustoRousseau(2012)andtheco-
editor, with Elizabeth Frazer, of Ideas of Education: Philosophy and
PoliticsfromPlatotoDewey(2013).
axel honneth is Senior Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe
UniversityinFrankfurtamMainandJackC.WeinsteinProfessorfor
the Humanities at the Department of Philosophy at Columbia
University. Since 2001 he has also been Director of the Institute for
Social Research in Frankfurt. His publications in English include
The Critique of Power (1990), The Struggle for Recognition (1995),
Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (co-
authored with Nancy Fraser, 2003), Disrespect: The Normative
Foundations of Critical Theory (2007), Reification: A New Look at an
Old Idea (2008), Pathologies of Reason (2009), The Pathologies of
Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory (2010), The I in We: Studies
intheTheoryofRecognition(2012),andFreedom’sRight(2014).
jeremy jennings is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the
Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is
theauthorofnumerousbooks,chapters,andarticlesonthehistoryof
French political thought, most notably Revolution and the Republic:
vii
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viii Notesoncontributors
A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
(2011).
avi lifschitz is Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History at
UniversityCollegeLondon(UCL).HeistheauthorofLanguageand
Enlightenment:The Berlin Debatesof theEighteenth Century(2012) and
co-editor of Epicurus in the Enlightenment (2009) and Rethinking
Lessing’s Laokoon (forthcoming). He has also recently edited
Rousseau’s Imagined Antiquity, a special issue of the journal History of
PoliticalThought.
nicola miller is Professor of Latin American History at University
CollegeLondon (UCL).Shehas publishedwidely on theintellectual
and cultural history of Latin America, most recently Reinventing
Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future,
1900–1930 (2008) and America Imagined: Explaining the United States
inNineteenth-CenturyEuropeandLatinAmerica(withAxelKörnerand
Adam I. P. Smith, 2012). She is currently working on a comparative
historyofknowledgeinLatinAmerica.
philip pettit is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and
Human Values at Princeton, and Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy at the Australian National University. His books include
Republicanism(1997),TheEconomyofEsteem(withG.Brennan,2004),
GroupAgency(with C.List, 2011),Onthe People’sTerms(2012),Just
Freedom(2014),andTheRobustDemandsoftheGood(2015).Common
Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit, ed. G. Brennan,
R. Goodin, F. Jackson, and M. Smith, appeared in 2007; Philip
Pettit – Five Themes from His Work, ed. S. Derpmann and
D.Schweikard,appearedin2016.
alexander schmidt is Junior Professor of Intellectual History at the
Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and currently a Feodor Lynen
Fellowat the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought,University
of Chicago. He is the author of Vaterlandsliebe und Religionskonflikt.
Politische Diskurse im Alten Reich 1555–1648 (2007). His work has
appearedinTheHistoricalJournal,HistoryofEuropeanIdeas,Historyof
Political Thought, Modern Intellectual History, Francia, and elsewhere.
HehasalsoeditedFriedrichSchiller’sOntheAestheticEducationofMan
and co-edited a special issue of History of European Ideas entitled
SociabilityinEnlightenmentThought.
ce´line spector isFullProfessoratthePhilosophyDepartmentofthe
University of Bordeaux (Montaigne). Her research interests include
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