Não é anódino que Adam Smith, em célebre carta para a Edinburgh Review, tenha ressaltado passagens relativas a problemas de filosofia moral do Discurso sobre a desigualdade. Chegando a aproximar Rousseau de Mandeville, distancia-os, contudo, por meio de um conceito fundamental: a piedade. Nesse artigo, examinaremos as consequências dessa leitura, a...
The present paper discusses Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969), which parodies both “post-apocalyptic” novels in the Cold War era and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theory on civilisation. By analysing this novel in comparison, not only to Rousseau’s On the Origin of Inequality (1755), but also to the works of various science fiction writers in th...
L’étude des textes du philosophe genevois, et en particulier de ses écrits politiques, nous a conduit à interroger la possibilité de voir dans le rousseauisme une théorie critique de la démocratie. Les principes politiques majeurs posés dans le Contrat social, approfondis dans les Lettres écrites de la montagne et rapportés à des cas pratiques dans...
Near the conclusion of The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau starkly proclaims that no state has been founded without a religious basis, and thus if he is right, every political community must grapple with the tension between the conflicting claims of the divine and the mundane. Because Christianity cannot solve this tension, Rousseau calls fo...
In eighteenth-century France, music was everywhere. Musical criticism and scores filled journals and newspapers, new concert houses and music shops spread across Paris, most authors addressed music in their writings, and pre-revolutionary speeches provided musical metaphors to conjure social and political ideals. Why did music arouse such a widespr...
This article brings to the fore and examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s inconsistencies when using the word ‘democracy’ in relation to ‘monarchy’ and ‘republic’. It argues that these are not the result of a mere lack of ability, or a change of beliefs in the fundamental, but of his political intentions and of his creation of a conceptual arrangement t...
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[Introduction et présentation du texte de Jean Jaurès par Gilles Candar et Stéphanie Roza]
"Ce document est issu des archives Pierre Renaudel, qui ont été déposées en 2014 à la Fondation Jean Jaurès (Centre des archives socialistes). L’édition et la publication de ces textes est poursuivie par la Fondation Jean Jaurès (Thierry Merel, Guillaume Toua...
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