Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-LoveCondition: NewSubtitle: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for RecognitionISBN-10: 0199542678EAN: 9780199542673ISBN: 9780199542673Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/10/2008Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love--the recognition --of their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching developmental possibilities for creatures that possess it. One of Rousseau's central theses is that amour propre in its corrupted, manifestations--pride or vanity--is the principal source of an array of evils so widespread that they can easily appear to be necessary features of the human condition: enslavement, conflict, vice, misery, and self-estrangement. Yet Rousseau also argues that solving these problems depends not on suppressing or overcoming the drive for recognition but on cultivating it so that it contributes positively to the achievement of freedom, peace, virtue, happiness, and unalienated selfhood. Indeed, Rousseau goes so far as to claim that, despite its many dangers, the need for recognition is a condition of nearly everything that makes human life valuable and that elevates it above mere animal existence: rationality, morality, freedom--subjectivity itself--would be impossible for humans if it were not for amour propre and the relations to others it impels us to establish.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 241mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 604gAuthor: Frederick NeuhouserGenre: HistoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Title: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Subtitle: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
ISBN-10: 0199542678
EAN: 9780199542673
ISBN: 9780199542673
Release Date: 07/10/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love : Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: European / French, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Personal Growth / Self-Esteem
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Self-Help
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Frederick Neuhouser
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
