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Jimmy Casas Klausen - Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom - 9780823257294 - V9780823257294
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Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom

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Description for Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom Hardback. Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist who was uncritically preoccupied with "noble savages," and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade and so used "slavery" and "freedom" callously. This book demonstrates why these charges are wrong. Series: Just Ideas. Num Pages: 356 pages, 4 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTB; HPC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 33. Weight in Grams: 613.

Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery.
Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Series
Just Ideas
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823257294
SKU
V9780823257294
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jimmy Casas Klausen
Jimmy Casas Klausen holds an appointment at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He is co-editor with James Martel of How Not to Be Governed. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, Political Theory, and Journal of Politics.

Reviews for Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau obsessively deploys the rhetoric of slavery, but has almost nothing to say about the actually-existing slavery of his own time. Taking off from this striking observation and informed by the distinctive concerns of recent postcolonial and Black Atlantic scholarship, Jimmy Casas Klausen offers a string of illuminating discussions of often-overlooked themes in Rousseau's oeuvre, such as travel and ... Read more

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