Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Pragmatic Idea of Democracy. By Jeff Jackson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 306p. $105.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719001646
Abstract: capacity to render us sociable (p. 151); and most innovatively, he reconstructs what a “legitimate” governmentmight look like for Smith, using arguments from the Lectures on Jurisprudence (pp. 204–10). Although Sagar’s debts to István Hont… read more here.
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Triangle or ‘trilemma’: Rousseau and the ‘Kantian peace’
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DOI: 10.1057/jird.2015.3
Abstract: The Kantian peace theory emphasises the mutually enforcing pacifying effects of democracy and economic interdependence. Nevertheless, the last decade, which has seen record levels of interdependence and democratisation, provides anecdotal evidence that challenges the simplicity… read more here.
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Children of the state: Rousseau’s republican educational theory and child abandonment
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DOI: 10.1080/0046760x.2020.1801863
Abstract: ABSTRACT Rousseau is among the most influential and important public moralists of the eighteenth century. His popular treatise on education, Emile, argues that parents should ideally rear their own children. It is small wonder, therefore,… read more here.
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Silencing the laws to save the fatherland: Rousseau’s theory of dictatorship between Bodin and Schmitt
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1661265
Abstract: ABSTRACT Jean-Jacques Rousseau devoted an important chapter of his Social Contract to the dictatorship. Carl Schmitt interpreted Rousseau’s chapter as marking the transition from ‘commissarial’ to ‘sovereign dictatorship’. This article argues that Schmitt’s interpretation is… read more here.
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Democracy on the Five Star Movement’s Rousseau platform
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DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2019.1705564
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Five Star Movement, or M5S, is a popular anti-establishment, populist political party in Italy. One of its key features is the Rousseau platform, an online space designed to enable direct democracy. Named after… read more here.
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Youthfulness and Legislation: Rousseau on the Constituent Moment
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DOI: 10.1177/10659129221097138
Abstract: In Of the Social Contract, Rousseau argued that, for successful political founding, the social spirit that is the product of the institutions must precede over the institutions. Scholars have interpreted Rousseau’s constituent moment as an… read more here.
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Conjugal Utopia: Marriage and Social Transformation in Rousseau’s Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse and Leprince de Beaumont’s La Nouvelle Clarice
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DOI: 10.3138/ecf.29.4.607
Abstract: abstract:Utopias represent a crucial means of Enlightenment critique and inquiry. A general eighteenth-century blind spot vis-à-vis women as subjects and sociopolitical agents, as well as the discrepancy between their onerous obligations and incommensurate rights, is… read more here.
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Variations et petites révolutions autour du déjeuner sur l'herbe (Manet, Maupassant, Rousseau)
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DOI: 10.3196/003581217822151563
Abstract: Dieser Essay schlagt vor, durch drei von Manet, Maupassant und Rousseau inszenierte »dejeuners sur l'herbe« die winzigen, leichten und fluchtigen Revolutionen zu untersuchen, die das Picknick hervorruft. Da es sich vom alltaglichen Tisch losmacht, erlaubt… read more here.
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La profesión de fe de Rousseau
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DOI: 10.3989/hs.2018.013
Abstract: Traditionally, Rousseau has been regarded as a Protestant thinker close to the most liberal Calvinist sectors as well as Socinianism, and also as one of the most vigorous defenders of tolerance and freedom of conscience.… read more here.
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