PUBLIC VISION, PRIVATE LIVES: ROUSSEAU, RELIGION, AND 21ST-CENTURY DEMOCRACY.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 2003
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered silver at the spine. ISBN: 0195125541 Pages: 320 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- Title
- PUBLIC VISION, PRIVATE LIVES: ROUSSEAU, RELIGION, AND 21ST-CENTURY DEMOCRACY.
- Author
- CLADIS, Mark S.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Oxford,
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0195125541
- ISBN 13
- 9780195125542
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Ultimately, however, Public Vision, Private Lives narrates a tragic tale. Placing Rousseau at the crossroads of Enlightenment optimism and Augustinian pessimism, Cladis elucidates Rousseau's uncomfortable, double vision. In one direction, Rousseau beheld humans able to transform their societies humanely; in the other, he perceived humans destined for immense suffering unless they dodge social involvement. At this awkward juncture, Rousseau sought to remind us of both our responsibility for ourselves and our powerlessness to radically transform ourselves.
In Part I, Cladis employs the Garden-Fall myth to narrate Rousseau's rather dismal account of the human journey into social life. Yet contrary to most interpreters of Rousseau, Cladis maintains that if we categorically identify the natural with the good and the social with evil, we fail to do justice to Rousseau's provocative account of our joy and sorrow in solitude and community. Part II explores the limits and possibilities of Rousseau's three paths to partial redemption - the public path (the reformed society), the private path (the escape into solitude), and the tense, middle way between them.
Throughout this study, Cladis listens closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice. He convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary. Honouring both love of self and love of that which is larger than the self - these twin poles, with all the tension between them - mark Rousseau's work, vision, and challenge - the challenge of 21st century democracy.
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