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Description for Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau hardcover. Editor(s): Lange, Lynda (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Toronto, Canada). Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 422 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 756.

A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also has made him very controversial. The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state.

Among the topics addressed by the contributors are the connections between Rousseau’s political vision of the egalitarian ... Read more

Overall this volume makes an important contribution to a core question at the hinge of modernism and postmodernism: how modern, egalitarian notions of social contract, premised on universality and objective reason, can yet result in systematic exclusion of social groups, including women.

Contributors are Leah Bradshaw, Melissa A. Butler, Anne Harper, Sarah Kofman, Rebecca Kukla, Lynda Lange, Ingrid Makus, Lori J. Marso, Mira Morgenstern, Susan Moller Okin, Alice Ormiston, Penny Weiss, Elie Wiestad, Elizabeth Wingrove, Monique Wittig, and Linda Zerilli.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penn State University Press United States
Number of pages
422
Condition
New
Series
Re-Reading the Canon
Number of Pages
422
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271022000
SKU
V9780271022000
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About . Ed(S): Lange, Lynda (Associate Professor Of Philosophy And Women'S Studies, University Of Toronto, Canada)
Lynda Lange is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

Reviews for Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Whether Rousseau is seen as a phallocratic tyrant, a proto-feminist philosopher, or situated somewhere between the two, the fifteen essays collected in this volume demonstrate not only the richness and diversity of his thought, but also the exciting debates which his writings continue to inspire in the twenty-first century.” —Jo-Ann McEachern University of Toronto Quarterly “This collection, prefaced by ... Read more

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