Rousseau and Geneva : from the first discourse to the social contract, 1749-1762

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Rousseau and Geneva : from the first discourse to the social contract, 1749-1762

Title remainder

from the first discourse to the social contract, 1749-1762

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Helena Rosenblatt

Title variation

Rousseau & Geneva

Creator

• Rosenblatt, Helena, 1961-

Subject

• Calvinism -- History
• Geneva (Switzerland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Language

eng

Summary

Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan socio-economic, political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr Rosenblatt effectively contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but this adoption obscures his Genevan origin. Dr Rosenblatt points out that he is, in fact, a Genevan thinker and illustrates that Rousseau's classical republicanism, his version of natural law theory, his civil religion and his hostility to the arguments of doux commerce theorists are all responses to the political use of such arguments in Geneva. The author also points out that it was this relationship with Geneva that played an integral part in his development into an original political thinker.--

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• Ideas in context, 46

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Ideas in context
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

46