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Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes
Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes, Sees Rousseau as the father if Counter-Enlightenment thought. 
Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrar, Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes
  • Written by author Graeme Garrard
  • Published by State University of New York Press, January 2003
  • Sees Rousseau as the father if Counter-Enlightenment thought. Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrar
  • Garrard examines Rousseau's critique of Enlightenment civilization. While optimistic philosophes such as Voltaire minimized the deep tensions and complexities of collective life, Rousseau contended that artificial means such as religion and patriotism wer
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction1
1The Enlightenment Republic of Letters11
The Party of Humanity11
The Virtue of Selfish Sociability19
2Philosophe, Madman, Revolutionary, God: The Many Faces of Jean-Jacques Rousseau29
Rousseau and the Philosophes30
The Invention of the "Revolutionary" Rousseau35
3Unsociable Man: Rousseau's Critique of Enlightenment Social Thought41
From Contract to Community42
Natural Order, Social Disorders45
4Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment Republic of Virtue55
Extending amour-propre56
Statecraft as Soulcraft59
Rousseau's "Manly" Republic64
5On the Utility of Religion69
The Religious Basis of Morality72
The Union of Church and State76
6Dare to Be Ignorant!83
Messieurs de l'Encyclopedie84
"A Sweet and Precious Ignorance"87
The Light Within92
7The Worst of All Possible Worlds103
The Cautions Optimism of the Philosophes103
Rousseau's Optimism about the Past106
Rousseau's Pessimism about the Future111
Conclusion117
Notes121
Bibliography155
Index179


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