{"product_id":"rousseaus-counter-enlightenment-graeme-garrard-9780791456040","title":"Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSees Rousseau as the father of Counter-Enlightenment thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrard presents the first book-length case that shows Rousseau as the pivotal figure in the emergence of Counter-Enlightenment thought. Viewed in the context in which he actually lived and wrote-from the middle of the eighteenth century to his death in 1778-it is apparent that Rousseau categorically rejected the Enlightenment \"republic of letters\" in favor of his own \"republic of virtue.\" The philosophes, placing faith in reason and natural human sociability and subjecting religion to systematic criticism and doubt, naively minimized the deep tensions and complexities of collective life and the power disintegrative forces posed to social order. Rousseau believed that the ever precarious social order could only be achieved artificially, by manufacturing \"sentiments of sociability,\" reshaping individuals to identify with common interests instead of their own selfish interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graeme Garrard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791456048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791456040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.42w x 0.44d","brand":"Graeme Garrard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096726249727,"sku":"9780791456040","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rousseaus-counter-enlightenment-graeme-garrard-9780791456040","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}