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Can I read Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (Modernity and Political Thought) on EtoBox?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (Modernity and Political Thought) by Tracy B. Strong is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (Modernity and Political Thought) about?
Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic
Who reads Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (Modernity and Political Thought)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tracy B. Strong
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780742521438
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25