Rousseau and Geneva
：From the First Discourse to The Social Contract, 1749–1762
( Ideas in Context )
Publication subTitle ：From the First Discourse to The Social Contract, 1749–1762
Publication series ：Ideas in Context
Author： Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 1997
E-ISBN: 9780511822360
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521570046
Subject： D09 in the history of politics, political history
Keyword： 政治学史、政治思想史
Language： ENG
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Rousseau and Geneva
Description
Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan socio-economic, political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr Rosenblatt effectively contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but this adoption obscures his Genevan origin. Dr Rosenblatt points out that he is, in fact, a Genevan thinker and illustrates that Rousseau's classical republicanism, his version of natural law theory, his civil religion and his hostility to the arguments of doux commerce theorists are all responses to the political use of such arguments in Geneva. The author also points out that it was this relationship with Geneva that played an integral part in his development into an original political thinker.
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