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Domesticating Passions
Nicole Fermon
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Description for Domesticating Passions
Paperback. The role of women and family as central to Rousseau's concept of the modern, enlightened state. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363. Large format paperback.Clean copy.
Woman, both real and metaphorical, is at the center of the project to reform politics, which for Rousseau means all human relations, Nicole Fermon asserts in this finely wrought study of how Jean-Jacques Rousseau places the family, women, and love within his political philosophy. Rather than accept conventional conceptual dichotomies of public and private or man and citizen, Fermon suggests that Rousseau's teachings on the family represent a connecting strand in an overarching philosophy: man not only creates institutions to satisfy his own needs, she writes, but the needs themselves ... Read more
Woman, both real and metaphorical, is at the center of the project to reform politics, which for Rousseau means all human relations, Nicole Fermon asserts in this finely wrought study of how Jean-Jacques Rousseau places the family, women, and love within his political philosophy. Rather than accept conventional conceptual dichotomies of public and private or man and citizen, Fermon suggests that Rousseau's teachings on the family represent a connecting strand in an overarching philosophy: man not only creates institutions to satisfy his own needs, she writes, but the needs themselves ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
University Press of New England Hanover
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9780819563057
SKU
KEX0211815
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About Nicole Fermon
Nicole Ferman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and coeditor of Princeton Readings on Political Thought (1996). Nicole Ferman is editor, with M. Cohen, of Princeton Readings in Political Thought (Princeton, 1996).
Reviews for Domesticating Passions
Fermon makes a unique contribution to Rousseau scholarship and to feminist discourse. By taking the reader beyond the traditional dichotomies of public life and private life, men and citizens, nature and convention, Fermon reaffirms the unity, complexity, and historical relevance of Rousseau's political vision.
Grace G. Roosevelt, NYU
Grace G. Roosevelt, NYU