Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche - Softcover

Yack, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520375874 ISBN 13: 9780520375871

Publisher: University of California Press, 2022

Synopsis

Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their discontent its peculiar breadth and intensity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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About the Author

Bernard Yack is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520375874
• ISBN 13: 9780520375871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 418